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As Best I Could

Poetry Off the Shelf

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The Untideness of the Stories That We Tell

"I was raised fundamentalist Christian. And then I got out, right? Like that's always like how the narrative goes," she says. "My mom, thankfully, one of her beliefs is was you're in the world, not of the world." Her sister still has moments when there's a terrible thunderstorm where she has that initial dread of Jesus being returning. She doesn't believe that. But it's just so ingrained in the body".

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