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“I am millions of particles, countless pieces of myself. Broken into shatters of identity, memories, dreams, hopes, and loss. I am a conglomeration of what-ifs. If I were a math symbol, I would be division. Thousands of parts of me divided into smaller and smaller substances of less and less hope.”

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Book:Rebel Hearts

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