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No matter one’s age, it’s important to feel part of something. To feel like you belong. But the balancing act inevitably becomes how much of yourself are you willing to compromise in order to be part of a community?
the emotional scars of children can take a lifetime to heal. If they do at all.
A heart with holes. Maybe a heart grows only when it feels love. And when pain replaces love, holes replace heart.
Secrets are likes knives. Aren’t they? While some are dull, others can do quite a bit of damage. An innocent secret is not really meant to be kept quiet. It’s shared around the dinner table like a butter knife. Passed from sister to brother, shoulder to shoulder, mother to father. Spreading the truth, thick or thin. Then there’s a different sort. The dark kind. Like cleavers, they aren’t passed to anyone. They’re buried deep—silenced—but forever deadly.
One of the challenges with secrets is that they need disguises, which manifest as lies.
