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I don't want to domesticate any animal. I simply dislike the yearly reminder of compound trauma. Being born on the hangover of America's Independence Day is to be born hyper-haunted.

I see your pain and wish I could banish it to the forest but I know that is not how trauma works and might we too be banishing the art? Heaven forbid. Jennifer often knows what to say when I'm off-centered. I hold the opposites in my hands and momentarily accept their equal weight. I feel myself level off: This will always hurt. This is temporary.

Soon enough me and the United States of America will be dust.

(meg remy)
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