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America Is Obsessed With Clowns — Including Our Own President

This generation’s most iconic character is a clown, Heath Ledger’s sadistic Joker, but the scariest one of all lives in the White House.

girl holding onto ladder, learning to let go, pensive, beautiful girl

I Will Love You In Letting Go

I have learned that loving you means letting you leave.

Sometimes You Just Have To Be Your Own Person

Sometimes you have to save yourself. You have to mend your broken heart. You have to be the person who decides to change their own story and rewrites a new one.

The Spookiest Thing Coming Out This October Is My Profound Existential Dread

Finally, it’s October! My favorite month for busting out some thick turtlenecks, wool socks, scary movies!!, and for having epic existential meltdowns over almost everything.

I Chose My Self Respect Over My Love For You

I’ll never forget the words you said to me. “What happened to you, you used to love me.”

I began to choose myself. That’s what happened to me.

Having Confidence While Living With HS, My Story

I made it through because it hit me one day that HS is simply one of the cards I’ve been dealt.

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You have to have a taste for words. Gluttony. You have to want to roll in them. You have to read millions of them written by other people.
John Macdonald, Night Shift