I could feel the chains around my heart loosening. It was wiggling free, inch by inch. I tried to lock it back up but it wasn’t so easy to restrain anymore.
“If I’d been trying so hard to be exactly like my mother that I hadn’t left room to explore or to play or to be a little more like me.”
― Hello Stranger
― Hello Stranger
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