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by
Abby Jimenez
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January 3 - January 7, 2025
“Don’t let them decide the life you’re going to live. You only get one.”
“Grace costs you nothing,”
He was in the worst position to be generous, yet he was. And she was in the best position to show grace, and she didn’t.
But it wasn’t fair to make him mine. Because I could never be his.
My vagina has officially been closed so long I’m afraid a Spirit Halloween is going to move in.”
“Why is everything so hard?” “Because you have too many fucks to give.”
Give up some of your fucks and see how much easier things are. You’re just spending all your time trying to please everyone else, and it’s making you miserable.”
“Imagine being a whole-ass doctor and having your family be like, ‘why are you so disappointing?’”
It’s amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you, alter you indelibly.
“Nobody likes assholes,” I said quietly. “Sometimes that’s just what you think you deserve.”
I couldn’t say I could really fault him for chasing down things that could hurt him. I couldn’t stop doing it either.
There is a peace in knowing the one thing you can’t live without. It simplifies all things.
Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.
I was a mosaic of someone else’s design where none of the fragments were put in the right place.