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And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don’t like me back, or who don’t like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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Madness Orange Sparkle
…a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
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Girl Powerful Sweet
I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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might One Thinking Variety
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.
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Hair Heart Mother
Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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Broken Heart Thinking
You can’t have an ending. It’s impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You’re never at the end until you die.
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Ends Impossible
Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.
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Being Level Movies True
The opposite of the life where the girl can’t even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren’t even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.
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Feeling Friend Good Likes Nbored Opposite Speak
They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.
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Crazy Giving People Sometimes Up
My problem is I can think whatever I think-girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah – but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
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Girl Jealous Life
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they’ve done, without doing anything myself.
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People Stuff Waiting
There’s something about seeing a guy’s feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.
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Guy Heart Mean
These guys, they were so sure of their places in life–so deeply confident of their merit and their future–they didn’t need any kind of front at all.
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Guy Merit Needs
Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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Destroy Giving Love Power
It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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Broken Inside Shattered Something
Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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Afraid Always Fear

And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don’t like me back, or who don’t like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

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And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don’t like me back, or who don’t like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

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