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Oct.26.2011
From the top of the center arch of the Sophie May Lane bridge in Norridgewock, Maine, high above the racing waters of the Kennebec River, I thought I could see the way out. At 15, I was not looking at the point where the brown river curled around the bend toward the next town. I was looking to jump...
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Oct.17.2011
When I was a young kid, I started a diary. The reason I began the diary was that I'd been told I was moving - again - and I was furious. The first entry, I think, was the incredibly frustrated promise: "I will never make my kid move all the time!"
It turns out that's probably not going to be a...
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Jun.27.2011
Sometimes you write and write and write, and wonder, is anyone really going to want to read this? Does what I'm doing even matter?
And then you get something like this in the mail . . .
It was a packet of letters from the 5th graders Hardy Elementary School in South Lyon, MI. They wrote about what...
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Jan.17.2011
There once was a girl full of hope. The people who loved and cherished the girl nourished her hope with promises that things would get better. But things only got worse and the girl fell into despair.
I commend the gay and lesbian community for taking a stand with the, It Gets Better Project for...
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Oct.28.2010
Dear Poppy,
This isn't your real name, but if I used your real name it could hurt you somehow, and I don't write this letter to be hurtful. Rather it's an apology. An apology for not being more kind back in middle school.
People thought we looked alike; same length of hair, glasses, bad skin. For...
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