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My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.

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I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

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I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

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I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.

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I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

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Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

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I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

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I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse.

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I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

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Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

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I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

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He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.

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I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

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I decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

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There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

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We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.

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Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

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Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

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I nod like I'm listening, like we're communicating, and she never knows the difference.

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She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

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I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

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He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

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The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

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I'm the girl who trips on the dance floor and can't find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.

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They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

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Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

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Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

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I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it's over, and I'm not going to think about it.

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It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

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