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Looking for the Part of Me That’s Still Alive
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I’d just lost my most pivotal parent in life, then gone on to take up drugs as a hobby… all by the age of 15. I was in no mode or mood to wander back out into society as lost & aimless as I was. My motivations back then were to…
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I’ve Kept the Movie Rolling, But the Story’s Getting Old Now
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Whether you like it or not, circumstance is going to throw you curveballs. As life proceeds, those circumstances become more & more complicated. As you age, they become harder to adapt to & independently survive throughout. At a point, they become impossible to advance beyond, if even aided. Such is life, even…
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I Will Make My Way Through One More Day in Hell
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As life’s curveballs came harder & faster throughout life’s progression, friends would line-up to assure me they’d “always be there.” …… and yet, come “D-Day,” phone lines sat silent, and parental influence was null & void entirely. Hell, if anything, Mom was as “suddenly stricken” by her husband “magically dropping dead” as everyone…
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If You Could See What I See Now
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Within days of my father “kicking the bucket,” I was off to a family friend’s house. There, I’d be given some “recovery time,” a period to grieve, while doing my best to stay focused on school. This ideology ended up working out as well, in the long-run, as a rebuilt…
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Time Ain’t Nothin’ If It Ain’t Fast
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At the age of thirteen, I watched a parent die right in front of me. A decades later, I had no idea the other one would follow suit so brutally… or that I’d be wandering the world so vulnerably for as long, thereafter. Only recently has my condition seen any…