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EXTRACT: My cover photo on Facebook reads: “I AM NOT AFRAID.” I found it on someone’s Tumblr and uploaded it, feeling particularly courageous at the time. Actually. I made it myself. It’s the name of a song I really like; but admitting that is distressing. Like nobody can actually just be genuine and honestly like something, that blindly simple. Everything has to have a deeper meaning; as deep as the holes from that earthquake in Tanzania that killed a hundred thousand citizens and levelled the city. Just plain liking things is fucking passé. I’m afraid of a lot of things.
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EXTRACT: One day we’ll wake up and wonder how we thought we could live like this, how we just made it work for so long. Like, this morning: I woke up and checked Facebook before I even realised what was going on. My eyes were still blurry and sleep-encrusted but my fingers knew exactly what to do; were making their way there before I could consider stopping them… and I didn’t.
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