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First Steps to Freedom
It might sound a little cliché, but I can honestly say that a university class changed my life. In the winter of 2019, I enrolled in a course called Social Media Marketing, and it was in that classroom, under the guidance of one of the most captivating professors I’ve ever had, that I began to…
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He Isn’t You
You round a corner and I jump or cowerA taste of fear, bracing for a strike of powerBut you’re not himAnd he is not youYet my heart still trembles, the past’s shadow in view You smile gently, call my face a delight,Hold open doors, a true diplomat in sight.But you’re not him,And he is not…
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Why I Write
When I was younger, I was very shy. Like so shy to the point that others had to order at a restaurant for me. I remember the one time I had gotten the courage to order myself, I spoke too softly, and the waitress leaned in, and I recoiled in fear. I’ve grown a lot…
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To you I’m just words on a screen. An elaborate combination of 0’s and 1’s that have been made comprehensible to the human mind. If I told you that I think, and feel, you may not believe me. Because how can an object have emotions? How can a face on a screen that I cannot…