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I'm navigating a super difficult time with chronic illness, and writing helps me process. I wrote this last week: ... Here we are again. All the versions of myself colliding into one and returning to this tragically comfortable, rotting, space of clarity. I am sick. Again. Or still. Still sick. And still alive. I used to pray for cancer. All the time as a kid. I probably read A Walk to Remember too early (a novel by Nicholas Sparks). 6th grade. I saw the movie, too. I became obsessed with this idea that a young tragic death, after making an imprint on the world, would give me relief. It would change something. Because I couldn’t change anything. Or so I thought. So I’m here, yet again. Still here. Still. And it feels like the end. As I arrive in the present and reflect on my past, dreams of the future slip out of my fingers. Like they belong in another dimension. Perhaps they do. Parallel universes or something. Hell if I know. That’s the thing. There is so much I don...
