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The Heart of a Woman


A woman's heart will bear the weight of 1,000 deaths

before it becomes at peace with the reality

that she will not achieve validation in the end.

Validation that she was good enough. 

Good enough to be worth it.

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carmenransome

17 yrs old. C/O 2018!

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