friends only.

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My ignorance, stupidity, self-centered behavior and repeated inability to open up and share with the person that means the most in the world to me has put me in a position such that I am afraid I might lose the love of my life.  Even now, as I sit here seven or so hours after the fact, I am kicking myself as hard as I can.  I cannot believe that I  ( Read more... )

My heart.  It breaks.

I just found out someone who I have not seen since grad night in high school lost his battle against leukemia.

He was the first boy to pay attention to me in junior high, my first real boyfriend.
He was my first kiss at the homecoming game freshman year in high school.
He told me he loved me.  I know he meant it.

And now he's gone.

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I used to work with a woman named Lea who would bake us cookies, foster dogs and run marathons, despite having just lost her mother (basically, her whole family) to cancer and battling a fatal brain tumor. She used to have to hold onto the cubicle walls sometimes during chemo and radiation to help her get around at work, yet still would come in ( Read more... )

I am going to hell.
Ha. No surprises there.

Take a picture of yourself right now.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with your picture.


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"The trouble was, I thought this alternative persona that I had adopted was just that: a put-on, a way of getting attention, a way of being different. And maybe when I first started walking around talking about plastic and death, maybe then it was an experiment. But after while, the alternative me really just was me. Those days that I tried to be ( Read more... )