Existence in Fragments - by gabrielle
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i turned twenty-one; i'm still not a poet
I have been twenty-one years old for about eight weeks now. This newsletter is overdue for that same amount of time, since I intended to post this for my birthday last January. Writing often serves me the harsh truth that sometimes wanting something is not enough to will it into existence—the delay of this newsletter being a glaring example of that. Please let me apologize for the long silence that I have unintentionally brought to my Substack page. There are no real consequences for the lack of content I put out, but what can I say; I’m a creature of habit. But it has been a while, hasn’t…
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