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Self Mutilation
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I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the br
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― Running with Scissors
― Running with Scissors
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You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.
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― A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
― A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
