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  • Once

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    Photo by Keenan Constance via Pexels I guess you can say this is my take of the poem “The Uses of Sorrow” by Mary Oliver. I read it years ago, but it really resonated with me, and you can see why. I think at first it makes you angry and you disagree with it, until…

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  • About Growing Up

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    Image by Matheus Bertelli via Pexels This piece is fresh as they come. These thoughts stayed with me for a while, and were the inspiration for this poem after someone close to me went through something life changing.  Because he grew up with me, I started to think about how he would deal with this…

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