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Read MoreWritten by J.DoucetteCopyright © September 2025 All rights reserved.The Result of Never:Life didn’t pauseIt didn’t warn meIt just shifted—and suddenly,there you wereI blinkedI gaspedno way… is this real?YesIt wasfor both of usIn that oneundeniable moment—it wasbut it takes workmutual...
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Powerfully penned, Jackie. Pulls at my heartstrings, amazing write my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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A very intense piece.
So much brooding. I hear you.
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Quite beautiful. Love always takes work, but perhaps not so much.
Touching words dear.
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Superb work. Great imagery.
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thank you graciously dearest Thomas just things I think about 💕
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Hauntingly penned, Brenda. Incredible write my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Read MoreGuttering flames of her red dress blazed into the hours after midnight, where she danced on the furthest table She could have been the train window girl who peeled me from the platform placed her ticket in the pocket astride my heart, our destination was...
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Read More"what doesn't kill you...makes you stronger"or so they say it might be truebut I'll tell you what I thinkit sounds like an abuser's excuseas usual...shifting the blame...to you ya know what else it creates?scars that never healfears that never weakentriggers unseen...sneaking...
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![Profile picture of Crimsin]()
hello beautiful Willow it seems we are on similar wavelengths as of late the world has made me cautious and fear overtakes… great write you are not alone ❤️
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The world is definitely not a welcoming place these days. I find myself retreating further from it every day. Thank you, Brenda 🧡
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POWERFUL AND POIGNANT.
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Thank you!
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That phrase neglects something; It hides the trauma that stirred the mantra to be uttered. It doesn’t really make you stronger. It makes you “on guard”.
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It’s reminiscent of “suck it up, buttercup” to me. They do the abusing & then try to say they’re doing us a favor by “toughening” us up. Scar tissue is just as sensitive…just that nothing grows there anymore. Thank you, Styxian
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Into the book it belongs! Mic Drop, Willow. I got goosebumps! Appreciate you.
Damian
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I’ve been much in my head of late. Kinda dark place in the world these days. My own demons are at least familiar. Thank you, my friend
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Mic drop!! felt this too deeply love..
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Why are there so damn many of us? And the number just keeps going up. Thank you
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Like the joker said “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stranger”. I think that’s a bit more accurate haha.
Great ink.
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I like that one! It does that, for sure. Thank you, my friend
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Amazing work, Willow. I find myself blushing and cursing myself for never looking at that slogan from this point of view. I gave no thought of that phrase being anything more than absurd for its stupidity. Not that I never knew the pain — or felt it from my father’s hand, or saw it when my mother lay upon the floor with one leg jutting outward at an odd angle. I think I preferred to ignore it, not from shame or ignorance, but because the pain is still there, buried deep within my mind, still sticking in the knife. Thank you for this.
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This is why I write. Because those images haunt. And everyday nonsensical phrases take on different weight when you look at them from the other side. I can never not be fractured. I’m a complete kaleidoscope but if I can draw light to bits and pieces, make people see differently, than maybe someone else won’t experience it later that day. Or they might recognize the truth in what is being said and know they’re not alone in feeling it. We don’t change the world in leaps and bounds, we change it in moments and inches. But it does change. Thank you, FlatDaddy
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