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claudia divincenzo's avatar

i resonate so deeply with this! i posted regularly on a blog all throughout middle school and highschool and i didn’t spend hours re-reading my drafts before i posted and no one read it and i didn’t really care ; here it sometimes just feels like another competition and i’ve never wanted to compete or convince people i’m a “thought daughter” or whatever that trend is—i just want to write whatever stupid lil thing i wanna write and be able to enjoy it the way i used to

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Jen Eastwood's avatar

I wish we could bottle that energy and enthusiasm from our teens. Even if what we wrote wasn't great, at least we were having fun.

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