000: On Becoming - by Ashley Zhang
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.” — Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things Dear friend, Nestled under my childhood bed are two shoeboxes containing every letter I’ve received since first grade. They provide fragmented snapshots of my life over the years: birthday wishes, postcards, a parting…
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