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Unfortunately, for so many young people, heavy drinking in college is such a cultural thing that they can easily get swept up in the normalization of it.

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The world’s a big place, filled with mostly boring people. A few freaks still slip through, though. The four-way taught me what hope meant. No matter how high I climb, there will always be a taller mountain.

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I have an obligation to say what others may not feel comfortable saying. I have a need to create these parallels for others to relate to.

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What if we were allowed to step outside of the constant quest for identity, for a moment, and simply allow ourselves to breath?

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My pants torn, half on, revealing my pale scratched skin to the moonlight. Am I brave now? Am I an inspiration now?

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The reason I didn’t tell people things quickly was because I hadn’t found the magic words and that’s when I knew I needed to be a writer.

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Nobody gets to tell you how you feel, nobody gets to take away your emotions or experiences. Nobody gets to tell you how to heal or cope with any of the shit that you’ve been through. Just because you look a certain way or act a certain way, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t an entire person you keep hidden from the world.

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And neither of us ever said goodbye.

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I always thought I knew it all, only to realize that it has made me a person unaccepting of help and aid from people, even the closest of my friends.

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Last night I smoked a blunt with a 65-year-old woman.