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Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on my own, in the city I had grown up in, after an entire life made in Olympia, Washington for the eight years previous.

Wendy C. Ortiz

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Wendy C. Ortiz
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 16
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