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By Emma.H.96 DIAMOND
Kalamazoo, Michigan

In fifth grade, we mapped our family history; making and crafting a list of each person who comes to Christmas dinner. No one ever taught me how to grieve when my family was gone...
Emma.H.96 DIAMOND, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Favorite Quote:
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better. -Anne Lamott, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.


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"There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And obviously it was time to go and screw it all up".

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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Reno, Nevada
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