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Is dreaming only for kids?

I was talking to a friend and blurted out a trendy joke—“Please, Please, Please” by Sabrina Carpenter— but changed Carpenter…

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Trigger warning: Mention of suicidal ideations. If you were to ask me what my greatest failure in life is, it…

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There’s a peculiar silence that visits me sometimes—uninvited, unsettling, yet familiar. It arrives in the quiet after the day has…

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Eyes squinting, eyebrows frowning, and lips curling in disgust. I do not long for love. Too blatant. Too embarrassing. A…

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I bitterly take my seat at the dining table for 18, for the families of three siblings united by their…