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The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

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Kami Garcia
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 25
Artist
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Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Felt
Opening
Two
Naked
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Somehow
Hard
Months
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Stripping
Things
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