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Masterful! I bow down to the queen of 100 words. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us. 🥰❤️

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🥰🥰🥰😭 thank you!! Maybe I can add that to my résumé - Queen of 100 words 🙃🤗😍

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Bravo - so well done!

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Thank you, Linda ♥️♥️

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100 words that pack a pinch! So moving Mesa ❤️

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♥️♥️♥️

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Magnificent piece so much power and depth in your words. ❤

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Thank you so much, Grace <3

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Tremendously powerful 💥

Bravo Mesa 🤗👏👏👏

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Thank you, Lise <3

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Wow, this is incredible, Mesa. You are beautifully mastering the craft of saying so much with so few words, and it's poetic and deep and so profound to behold.

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Thank you, Kendall <3 <3 <3

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100 Words or Less

Sometimes I wonder why am I here? Why do I have consciousness and for what am I always searching for? There is this void within me, one I feel like I was born with. One I've never known what living without it even feels like. This void is like a dark room where all of my trauma lives, uninvited, unwanted but here, regardless. I realize that I don't even know who I am. I am a breathing, walking, living strange collections of unknown energy. I am so lost, so full of broken pieces.

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Thank you for sharing 🖤🖤 I know the void well!! You’re definitely not alone in it 🖤🖤

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Deeply moving.

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Thank you ♥️♥️

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Beyond powerful, Mesa. So much said and not said in 100 words.

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Thank you so much Laura ♥️♥️

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Oh my god this piece! Goosebumps on top of goosebumps….really stunning and heartbreaking and all the things!! 🙏💚

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Thank you, Jane 😭♥️♥️

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At first I thought this was your essay from WITD School and I'm floored you could write it in 8 minutes. But you have all the tension, the buildup--so good Mesa--just fabulous. And whether or not it's from last Thursday's class or not, it's gold. I'm still trying to figure out if this first exercise will go on to be something greater for myself. You're clearly there. So glad you shared, Trish

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Hi Trish! It’s not from last Thursday, unfortunately I ended up having to leave halfway through so I need to go back and do the assignment 😍😍

Thank you for your support and kind words! This little snippet is the starting point of my memoir 😍😍 I can’t wait to write more!

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Powereful.

I wonder how many of us sit on our parents’ divorce documents until the moment we have the courage to look? https://twohouses.substack.com/p/riptide?r=nbjv0

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Thank you, Eliza ♥️ and yeah, I have wondered if my mom had not died when she did would I have ever seen those documents?

A complete turning point in my life.

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Fascinating

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