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Spellbook of the Lost and Found

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“The spell was on the very fist page: a calling for the lost to be found. We wanted our diaries found. So Holly suggested we try it. At first it was like a recipe: gathering moss and branches, raiding our cupboards for olive oil, slipping saints medals out of our nanas' wallets, rooting through the Christmas boxes in the attic, looking for silver string. It was silly and secret and made us feel like kids making mud pies. None of us took it seriously, not even Holly.”

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“When you grow up, what are you going to be? A doctor, an engineer, a mechanic, what? A fisherman trawling his net in the sea? Better choose, don’t want to leave any door shut But aren’t we all too young to decide? I need more time, to think, to live, to learn, I promise I’m not taking the system for a ride, It’s just my future path I can’t discern. So now I’m back to try once more. Grade twelve, part two, gonna give it a go. It is your patience I must implore, I promise I won’t just play Nintendo. Because it’s not that I don’t give a crap. I just really need to take a victory lap.”

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“Kids who, I hope, have a couple years left before they have to think about what they’ll be like at seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen, expected by parents and teachers and politicians and everyone else to have everything figured out—but on the authority figure of the day’s terms, not their own. If these kids are trans, queer, or people of colour, how many of their nights are already spent curled up and defeated on the couch?”

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