These are the thoughts you avoid, spoken out loud.
We confront the versions of ourselves that aren’t pretty — who we pretend to be, who we actually are, and who we’re still trying to understand.

by Chelsey Gray
These are the thoughts you avoid, spoken out loud. We confront the versions of ourselves that aren’t pretty — who we pretend to be, who we actually are, and who we’re still trying to understand.
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3/26/2026
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These are the thoughts you avoid, spoken out loud.
We confront the versions of ourselves that aren’t pretty — who we pretend to be, who we actually are, and who we’re still trying to understand.
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