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Sybil's avatar

That made my Brain tear up a bit but my Heart is laughing. Thanks.

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D minor's avatar

But

remember when your teacher put the two boys in the advance reading group

and

you asked why

and

your mother told you

*Your teacher hasn’t noticed that you’re smarter than those boys, probably because she’s not as smart as you.*

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Such a long time ago. Might as well have been this morning, or tomorrow.

[thank you]

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Lacy's avatar

I am slain. Thank you for the slaying.

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Madeline's avatar

This is my favorite thing you have ever written. I needed it today.

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Lauren's avatar

My English teacher wrote this in my yearbook: “You are a bright light in a dark sea.” Yes I am.

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Susan Coyne's avatar

Haha, my High School Physics teacher, a young sardonic over-tall abjectly sad abjectly funny man, wrote in my yearbook: "Thank you for being a light in my otherwise never-ending morass of a life." Almost twenty years later, that still cracks me up.

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Danielle Kurtzleben's avatar

Fuck yeah.

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shana's avatar

YES.

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Jessica Elefante's avatar

I will repeat myself here as I have emailed this to every writing group I am a part of. Thank you for the sharp kick in the twat today!

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Maryrose Smyth's avatar

Kill me once, shame on me, kill me twice and I’ll follow you anyway, even haunt you from the mezzanine of some special heaven! Bloody great wordsmithery here HH! Awesome revelaciousness to absorb your words! Don’t ever change. Unless you want Infinity likes! My mother called me special again and again but i thought it was shorthand b/c we (her 8 feral Irish-Am Catholic children) overwhelmed her. Special felt like go-away-now, so I can nap! It held no traction. i was spinning when needed directions on how to slow down, tune in. How to be a both/and girl? was my work. Still is. Stillness is. Anyway, let’s go back to the HH channel and reframe my childhood.:)

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Jodi's avatar

(you think good)

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Sarah Thyre's avatar

Aye aye, cap’n

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MKHS's avatar

❤️

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Eva Marie's avatar

I'm late to the read - this is a very good one, thank you HH. The book shop scene is so vivid and also motivating - is it pervy to enjoy thriving in the face of bitter ex's?!

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AC's avatar

Crying (after returning "home" from a very long journey, wondering if I was always special or always mistaken).

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Komei's avatar

such a good writer, pen game on pointtt

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Sonia's avatar

This is great.

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