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This morning when I left Mom’s parting words were, “Come straight home after school.” Wow! Like I’m going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn’t sound so bad at that.

Beatrice Sparks

They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.
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Hurt Selfish Thinking
one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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Old One Day Young
They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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Important Individual Personality Something
Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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Beauty Lying Remember Truth
The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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Bottom Complete Fallen Life
How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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Embarrassed Function Miserable
Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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Saddest World
I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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Humanity Small Parts
I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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Afraid Dies Live
Even my parents treat me like I’m stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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Even Expectation Inferior Measure
Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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Everything Guess Nobody Talking
Maybe the new me will be different.
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Different Maybe New
It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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Blood Life People
I pretend I’ve got lots of confidence and I’m a big jock and like that but deep inside I’m a frightened, insecure, can’t-make-it failure.
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Frightened Insecure Jocks
This morning when I left Mom’s parting words were, “Come straight home after school.” Wow! Like I’m going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn’t sound so bad at that.
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Home Mom Morning
I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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Escape Sleep Way

This morning when I left Mom’s parting words were, “Come straight home after school.” Wow! Like I’m going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn’t sound so bad at that.

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