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I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.

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J.A. Redmerski
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 25
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Life
Afraid
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The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people’s and I really have no right to whine at all.
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Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive it’s what makes being a best friend official.
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Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less
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I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall I’ll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.
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I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.
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Because this is our life. We met on the road we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.
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It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.
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Everybody starts out as strangers.
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It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.
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A bus ride is like being in another world.
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Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.
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Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
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There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
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Laugh, I Nearly Died, Andrew answers. You've probably never heard that one before.
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Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.
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It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.
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