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"Life is good before I met the monster. After, life was great. At least for a little while."

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"I remember the night I first let her go, open the smeared glass, one thin pain, cellophane between rules and sin, freed."

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"I hadn't seen my dad in 8 years. No calls. No cards. No presents. And now I'll be thrown in with him for three whole weeks."

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Dad and I attempted small talk. 'How's your sister? How's your mother? How's what's his name? And how are you?'"

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"I'd probably heard it once in my life! 'Pretty name, Bree.' Okay good call. 'My friends call me buddy.' Hardly a handle for a white night."

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"His warm hand whispered against mine. 'See you soon.' His promise fell soft, followed by the Bobcats predatory growl, 'Me too.'"

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"I ran inside, tried to breathe, to laugh, to silence the drumming inside my head. Went to the kitchen to get a drink to get away, to get a glimpse."

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"Two days, two nights, no sleep, no food, come down off the monster, you crash real hard."

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"Uncomplicated, this child's game. She spends twenty minutes disproving his theory until she realizes it's all a lie."

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"'You couldn't take off?' 'You don't know my boss.' 'Does he know about me?' 'She knows you're here.' 'She doesn't know. that you're my daughter.'"

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"My mom gave me a detailed rundown of his very bad habits. I promise. Swore. Cross My heart. recited the D.A.R.E pledge verbatim. How could she love him so much. Things would never be the same."

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"I walk up the skywalk, balancing heavy twin carry-ons. Fingers of sweat grabbed my hair and pressed it against my face."

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"Her tongue curled easily behind my teeth, and her words melted between my lips."

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"I found myself in a meadow, brilliant green beneath the soft wash of sunshine. I moved at a near Sprint, drawn toward a symphony."

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"Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. You got to be crazy to open your windows, and let the demons in."

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"Heart jackhammering in my chest, pumping fever, toenails to follicles, blistering veins and brain cells. Anger seeped from my pores, vinegar sweat as I stopped at the door, into the night down the dark sidewalk."

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"Thoughts belated in my brain, ricocheting, creative side to practical side, lustful hate to hateful half. sleep? yeah, right."

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"So you sit and smile pretending like it's not even fazing you, so he looks at you in the eye, trying to measure you, find a hint of reaction. and he says, 'tell me how you feel.'"

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"We stayed up all night, talking, I struggled to remember exactly what about."

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"No promises, no demands, just solid rebuilding of shattered trust. Then I said it too. I love you. And everything that meant before meant nothing."

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"That's what I want to believe. Maybe someday I can. But right now I think something different. I never saw it coming. Never thought she would. I would have stopped her. Could I have stopped her?"

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"I filled the sink with cold water, dunked my whole head under, counted to 10, came up, repeated the process. She had retreated."

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"'She's hurt real bad.' 'Who?' 'Lince. Fell off the balcony. Yesterday. Right outside.' I didn't ask why instead, I let him cry."

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"The monster rose up in part then, hardened her eyes, she looked like an animal, crazy mad, diseased. spit every word, she's swore she'd get back at you, at me."

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"Burned out, a drift on a sea of uncertain synapses, a place where your eyes are refuse to focus and your brain refuses to function."

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“Unforgettable birthdays are easy to come by. Do you remember your fourth? Your 12th? If you do remember them, why?”

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“The number one worst thing about those seven months. My steady, needful, forever relationship with the monster. Learning, discovering, struggling, winning, and losing all happens with the monster”

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“But one morning in early November, I woke up at the moment I got it, I heaved until I hurt. It might have been the flu or a bad reaction to Mom's sloppy joes. But it wasn't.”

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“Happy Endings I'd like to give you one. But I'm not really sure how the story ends myself.”

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“I was a game to play. We wandered off, and found a self-sitting spot in a patch of crispy Brown wild wheat.”

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“Didn't matter much. Summer had dissolved. New clothes and a few new tunes just might improve my ‘sour outlook’ as she lovingly worded it.”

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“His idea of love sure didn’t match with mine. ‘I love you let's see other people.’ Interesting sentence structure.”

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“Rather than face total embarrassment, I told her and Sarah I'd meet them at Black Widow. They looked at me weird but shrugged anyways.”

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“I tried to beat Mom inside but she was right on my heels as I went through the door. Busted. I had to tell her something.”

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"I wasn't scared yet they asked me a lot of questions. I made up every answer, the most important one being my parents can't be reached."