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JR's Journal
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Day 521 • Stepping on My Steps
Day 521. I began thinking that maybe I could turn the table and own that. It boggles my mind to think about how long I...
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September 30 • Dreampt a Little Dream...
Day 814. Each testimonial brought me closer to breaking. Eventually, I was on the floor in a fetal position sobbing uncontrollably...
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September 12 • Cadaver Cavorting
Day 430. I was swallowed up by a world where I could neither live an accomplishing life nor escape the manifesting desires of my...
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September 05 • Suicide is Not Painless
Day 789. I have known too many people who have taken their own lives. At least a dozen of my graduating class in high school committed...
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September 01 • I'm Listening...
Day 785. I laughed so hard I cried, or maybe it was the other way around. To see this defect of mine portrayed so eloquently by such...
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August 29 • It's Gone. Wait. There It Is.
Day 416. Some moments the allure seems more real than reality, so I must cling to and cherish the knowledge that difficult challenges are...
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July 27 • Asking For It
Day 749. I remember that moment as the first time I acknowledged the battle raging in my soul with anyone since I was a kid in church...
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July 08 • Another Leap
Day 363. I believed I was stuck in a life of sexual obsession and later in dangerous acting out behaviors. Then one day, I stepped out...
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June 30 • A Brain Break
Day 356. In the past year, the pendulum has swung far from where it was in the things I prefer not to think about. A lot of the reason...
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