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I can't shove the dark out of my way.

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Jandy Nelson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
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New York City
New York
Shove
Dark
Way

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Grief is forever. It doesn't go away it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
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In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
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