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The Thread: Lacuna

If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.

What a strange depiction. Mary, mother of Jesus, covered in hair.

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Ghosts, like women as people, are just a theory.

I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human.

I can’t speak, but I can scream.

It’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.

The whole word suddenly fell apart, both as a concept, and as a sound.

Misogyny reminds us of our place: down girl.

I was a little girl and all I wanted was to grow up.

I create myself, raise myself. I am mine.

This is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need.