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In that moment, it seemed that the future that awaited me, the future that had felt leviathan only an hour earlier, was now as airy and attainable as a dandelion wish floating out of reach just slowly enough to grasp before it disappeared forever.
Warm Honey
Suddenly, I felt bright and alert and shiny. It felt like someone had turned the lights on inside me—like the first rays of sunshine after a long and terrible winter.
My pain is a set of marbles that I keep on rotating in the palm of my hand.
You’re an adult now. You’ve already been through treatment—more than once, I guess. It’s up to you now.” She squeezed my hand. “I just miss my little kid.”
hit like a ton of bricks.
I only saw the sharp-edged specifics of each little catastrophe, clinging to this insistent belief that it could have been different if only the world had been kinder to me.
