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June 13, 2022
By l0verbugg GOLD, Concord, Massachusetts
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"Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together." -Marilyn Monroe

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TW: suicide and drug overdose

Congratulations! You graduated eighth grade. Congratulations! You’re going into high school!
Congratulations, you survived this hellish year. Congratulations, you survived through this hellish year without successfully killing your self, or accidentally overdosing.  
Congratulations on enduring all the ignorance, the anger, the crying and tears. 
Congratulations, because now that you’ve done all that, you can wear a big, fancy dress while posing for a hundred pictures with people you don’t even know.

Well, you’ve graduated. And you’ve fought hard.

So what will you do now?

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