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"I want to say that I was brave, but I don’t know how."
"My mother, who taught me to make a home from the pain of a land that never wanted us."
"In the end, I wanted to be good. But even that was a kind of wishful thinking."
"You were a forest in which I was lost."
"I have spent my life trying to love the world in the ways I was taught to love it, but it was always too much."
"To be seen is to be loved, and to be loved is to be seen."
"I am writing to reach you, even if each word I write is one more word you will never read."