Category: PRIDE 2024
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Still My Mother’s Daughter
“You want me to try? I can’t try for something I don’t believe in. It is this kind of Western world that has ruined you. You are so pretty, baobei, smart, too. You’re just sick. If I raised you in China, this wouldn’t have happened to you,”
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“Isn’t it Messed Up How I’m Just Dying to be Him?”
One studded belt and several low slung pairs of jeans later, I still owe the man I am today to a handful of guys in rock bands.
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nursery rhyme (prayer to the virgin mary)
if my mama doesn’t love me, will i still get into heaven?will you touch me on the cheek, will you say that i’m forgiven?i won’t be wicked anymore; i’ll go to church, i’ll wear a dress—i don’t know what i wanted, but i know it wasn’t this.if i swear i’ll never kiss a girl again,…
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Ainsley and her permanent spring
Feet cold, pressed on the linoleum floor. She feels it all around her, But not in her. Not yet.
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Bosie
I picture this: two hands meet in the darkness, and for a moment, real love existed like no other had before.