"I think I'm in a place where I'm more at peace with the events that I write about," she says. "It was almost like I had this giant like piece of furniture walking a doorway and I had to kind of shift it out of the way so I could walk right through it" The last poem in your book is called bride, which you're talking about yourself. Have you realized that finally because that's a don't give a fuck poem like I'm good. You wrote at the end though by the time these pages are printed by the time you're reading this may I be in a place of forgiveness are you there do you have to be? There doesn't have
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