Tag: love
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The Lie of Being Loved
Girls like her are never really loved. That’s the truth no one wants to admit — not in public, not even in whispers. It doesn’t make for a nice story. She isn’t the one men fall head over heels for. Not the one they write songs about. Not the one they cross oceans or break…
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What Should Girls Like Me Do?
by someone still figuring it out There are days when I wake up and genuinely ask myself: What am I doing with my life? I don’t mean that in the dramatic, throw-a-pillow-at-the-wall way. I mean it in the quiet, bone-deep, unsettling way — The way you feel when your entire lineage seems to shine with…
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The Darkness, and the City
The darkness hadn’t arrived suddenly. It had taken root long ago—quietly, insistently—until it shaped everything. Her choices. Her silences. A broken marriage. Disappointed parents. The hollow weight of conversations that ended, inevitably, in those same tired words: “You’re so capable. Why don’t you do something with your life?” She used to smile—a twitch of the…