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When I was 13 years old, I thought I had hit rock bottom. I thought I could never see the sky as blue again, only as a shade of I-don't-want-to-be-outside.
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At 14 years old, I wish I had someone who could have made me feel better, who would take me to a better place. But not the better place that people call death.
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I stopped believing in myself when my mother told me I never even tried.
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I said to her that I tried so hard, maybe even a little too hard, that eventually I became nothing.
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Well, at least that was what I thought back then.


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Nowadays, I call myself a fortune teller. I will become an astronaut, or even a scientist. I will become the inventor of something amazing.
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I also found out that the person in the mirror is smoking hot.
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A pair of wings had grown on me. I do not need other people anymore to tell me that I will be just fine. Just. Fine.
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A couple of years later, I have all kinds of things growing inside of me. Some people call it selfconfidence and a pretty smile. I call it healing.
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I am healing.