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DontStopBelieving

  • Wasn't Mine To Take

    Prologue As I sat inside the cold, silent court room, I replayed the past few days in my head. I had a head on collision with another ...

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  • Wasn't Mine To Take (Chapter One: Before It All)

    Before It All I stared at myself in the oval, floor length mirror that sat against my painted blue bedroom wall. I looked at every inch of my ...

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I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.
— Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X