new beginnings
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It began with a can of MonsterI couldn’t finish. Then the Starbucks Double Shot energy drinksstayed full beside me, too. My body whisperedbefore my heart understood. So, the day before my period was due,I took a testin the middle of a workday,thinking, Maybe. Two lines. A thousand questions. I was scared.I was hopeful.I was carrying…
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I have been broken open more times than I can count. By loss. By love. By goodbyes I never got to prepare for. I have carried storms inside a body that still learned how to hold sunshine. There were days I wondered if I was disappearing. But somehow, between the cracks, something kept reaching upwards.…
Between Bruises and Blooms 