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I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

Allison Winn Scotch

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Allison Winn Scotch
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 12
Writer
Refuse
Comply
Eye
Step
Splinters
Away
Thoughts
Lodges
Stills
Baby
Toes
Still
Instead
Shut
Gnaws
Take
Steps
Presses
Splinter
Enough
Brain
Press
Poking
Every
Tiny
Lodge
Like
Eyes

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