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rachel_jade_coates

I am in the business of telling stories.

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Kids

It's funny how kids think. I remember when I was six or seven, I was at the arcade when I got to thinking about what would happen if you took the tokens out of the game machines.

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True Love

"We are a little weird and life's a little weird, but when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." -Theodore Seuss...

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One Day

One day I'll be brighter. And maybe I will see. The lover and the fighter. That you seem to find in me. One day I'll be stronger. I could carry cares for two. And walk forever longer.

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A Friend's Memory

*A good friend of mine, a brilliant writer, sent this to me recently. I couldn't help but feel it begged to be shared.

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A Side Note

With all due respect, hon, whenever you flood my newsfeed with negativity, and whenever I'm expected not to care about what tragedies you claim to be going through, I don't see the point in...

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Some Therapeutic Advice

Feel like life's creeping up on you and scratching at your neck.

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Wise Ones

We are the wise ones. Our Mommies' and Daddies' words to us are chains and little lanterns. We bind them about our necks and let them dangle close to our hearts, proud like medals. And they are good.

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