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You don’t forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be

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Jessica Sorensen
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 2
Novelist
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I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.
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