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Submitted to Contest #233
January 1st, 1996 This is it. The beginning. A new beginning. Today is the day I start my new life. No more running away, no matter how scared or sad or angry or empty I get, I will not fill my body with toxins to escape. I will be coherent, for myself, for my family, I will change. I have to. I can’t keep living a life where I’m paranoid all the time. My mother tells me the things I believe are coming after me aren’t real, that I’ve filled my body with so much booze and drugs, it’s altered my brain… But it all felt so real. She’s got to ...
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