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a montage of 21. - by kunkun - sincerely, kun

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You blow out the imaginary candle and think of everything you wish for in this year. A wakefulness. A fragment of clarity. A bouquet of courage.

In the month leading up to your birthday, a friend talked about the tinge of anxiety they felt about having to turn twenty this year. You remembered feeling the same way last year, so you told them that the pinch of quarter-life crisis feels particularly intense at the turning of personal decade. Later that day, a similar anxiety arose within you. You wondered about the ways you have grown since last year, approaching a more expansive and luminous version of yourself. You wondered if all of us feel somewhat out of place and as though we are trailing behind where we are supposed to be. A…

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