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Dec 2017
20
12

I try my best to fit in, but somehow they all know underneath I am not like them.
I am the freak, so I sit behind bars damaging myself but refuse any form of help.


14

Euthanasia, an easy and painful death. Yet a goodbye from you both would’ve made this hurt less. I am surrounded by a broken family, watching the strongest women I know fall apart at the seams.

16

I swallowed my sadness in a handful of pills and lay motionless for 2 weeks telling them all I had the ‘flu’, there was nothing but darkness and within that even more emptiness than I already felt

18

You left me, early February. I would have married you in a heartbeat. Though a healthy heart is not something you left me with after stabbing it with your fingers, my heart not being the only thing you involuntarily pierced.

20

I hope I grow from all of this.
20th birthday ends at midnight so have reflected on the hardest part of these past years
emmie cosgrove
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emmie cosgrove  20/Gender Fluid/London
(20/Gender Fluid/London)   
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     --- and Imran Islam
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