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Weekly Contest #354
Distant, alone, independent—those are the words I would use to describe myself.I suppose I have felt this way for as long as I can remember, though I didn’t always have the language for it. It wasn’t something that arrived suddenly. It settled in slowly, like a habit you don’t notice forming until it’s already part of you.My parents divorced when I was eleven. That moment, in hindsight, feels like a dividing line in my life—before and after. After the separation, my mother began dating again almost immediately. She moved through relationship...
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