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“…everyone has to translate when they try to bring something of themselves into language, hoping that the person listening might catch the sense of it, might see in the words a glimmer of the self who speaks them.”

“My thinking was that I couldn’t be accused of being unsuccessful if I was traveling - at least I would be doing something. I wasn’t done with my escaping yet.”

FUCK

ATTACKED

“[The men] all had something in common, but I hadn’t made the connection until now, and the connection brought things into focus, made things feel more real, set up a chain of threat and consequence in my mind. It felt dangerous to admit it, as though the commonality was a sort of curse, a brokenness in them, in us, but I knew the brokenness was in the world instead.”

Tears?
Already??
Not even at a sad part???
It’s just so beautifully written????

Page 8 and it’s already devastating.

You can also tell immediately that this was written by a poet. Similar to Ocean Vuong

Read something cute and sweet, time to rip heart out.