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Submitted to Contest #312
I have long lost myself. I do not know how this has happened, but I do know that I am not myself. I have tried so hard to be something, someone, that everyone wants me to be. And I might have succeeded, but in the end, hasn’t cost me everything? I am lost. It is suffocating, drowning, killing. Who am I? What was I made for? Why do I exist? I question my worth. I question myself. I ask myself constantly, ‘If not I, then who?’ If not I, then who will do all that is necessary, all that must be done. The answer, I sadly find, is no one. If not I...
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