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Writing The Story Of Her Life

She hid her true self behind uplifting poems she literally wrote on walls; it was only after finding sobriety that she also found her essential muse

I grew up in a good home. My parents weren't divorced and they didn't fight. In grade school, I was your typical happy, smart, athletic kid. I always got good grades, was good in sports, and was funny, or at least tried to be. This is when I started writing poems and even got a couple published then, too. I continued writing into high school, but that's when I started getting depressing, lonely, and sometimes suicidal.

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