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This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here:
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“It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is your hardest year.”
She told me this five years ago, back in 11th grade
Saturday, November 11th, 2:33PM
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