Jess’s Reviews > The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up > Status Update

"My newest strategy for coping with being alive was all about disengaging from the self and putting my love and energy into others. Thus, a fangirl was born!"

... I'm in this picture and I don't like it

"After a while, I propped the photo up on my windowsill as a reminder. I needed to remember who I’d been, the lengths I’d gone to for self-improvement, the sacrifices I’d made to fix myself. How good I’d once been. I’d look at the picture as time passed [...] The me in that photo was slipping further and further away. The picture got knocked and crumpled over time. Eventually, the sunlight destroyed it."

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