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Weekly Contest #47
I am not writing about myself as a rational human being. I’m writing about the waves of emotion that overwhelm me when I can’t speak. I can’t let my thoughts overpower me. I can’t let my feelings take control. I want to tell someone how I feel. I’d do anything to let some sort of emotion out. I want you to know I am not okay; I want you to know I am drowning. But you don’t look at me, you don’t even ask me if I’m alright. I am coughing up water and yet you shrug me off as if I’m not choking. As if I’m not struggling to breathe whenever I’m a...
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