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Eating Pomegranates in the Dark

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Summer Brennan
Dec 14, 2020
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I forget how to do this.

I haven’t kept a diary at all this past year. For a few years I would try to write in a journal every morning, but I found, when reading back over them and typing some of them up, that they were mostly vessels for my anxiety. The things I needed to do. The things I hadn’t done yet. The things that I promised mys…

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