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TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of suicide and self-harm, mental health, psychiatric hospitals, implied abuse, bullying.....It’s not like anyone ever knew what she was dealing with. A quiet kid, an oversized My Chemical Romance sweatshirt and baggy ripped black skinny jeans always covering her body regardless of the temperature. Her shaggy scene hair, colored blue and green and zebra-striped, always barely covering her eyes, dark makeup applied with a childish hand. Scars peeked through the rips in her jeans, and her arms, weighed down by gauze pa...
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“Ooh, spooky!” I exclaimed as Brea brought the box with the Ouija board up from downstairs, tape cracking and peeling from the corners. It was a chilly Saturday on Hallow’s Eve, and the windows were barely cracked open behind us, the smell of freshly fallen leaves and sweet apple pie wafting in on the wind. The two of us clambered onto her twin-size bed, sitting cross-legged atop black and orange unmade blankets patterned with tiny skulls and pumpkins. A clear bucket of miscellaneous candy we’d bought at Price Chopper earlier that day lay be...
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