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Cutting pain was a different f...

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

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I open a paperclip and scratch...

I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

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I've written in every imaginab...

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

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Last night, I had that dream a...

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

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Used to be that my whole body ...

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs....

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Why? You want to know why? Ste...

Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

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The bathroom door swings open....

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

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Two days later, two days befor...

Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

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I inscribe three lines, hush h...

I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

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I showed her how I'd been maki...

I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care....

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i decapitated dandelions all m...

i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

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They mean hot like 'I'm too go...

They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean

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Why not draw naked guys, just ...

Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.

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I am not going to think about ...

I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it's over, and I'm not going to think about it.

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Some adults would rather prete...

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

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I wish adults would spend less...

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

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I understood what triggered he...

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

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There's no point in asking why...

There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is 'why not?' I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

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If I run or breathe too deep, ...

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

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They tied me back together, bu...

They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....