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Continue reading →: Cut Your Hair
“She ain’t got no hair on her head.” There was once a girl who was born without hair. Her mother worried that people would think she was a boy, so she would make the baby wear headbands with delicate pink fabric bows and flowers. At age two, she still didn’t…
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Continue reading →: The Final Initiation
Grief is a Fickle Mistress I don’t plan out my writing, a more organized person probably would, so that they can stay consistent with a general theme or topic that they want to address. I’ve realized a long time ago that my whole life is a theme. Like any movie…
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Continue reading →: The Problem of Riding Ants
The Division The librarian at my elementary school was divisive– there were kids who would cheer at the thought of going to the library, and there were equally as many who would groan at the very mention of the name “Ms. Thomas.” She had a sharp-tongue that she was perhaps…