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“Even though she's gone, I know her words will continue to support me as I encounter the many lessons that life will throw at me and my sisterhood.”

with fear, love, and horror. It may be the scariest novel I have ever read — books explicitly written in the horror genre are nothing in comparison. Nothing could be more terrifying than a world that forces a mother to murder her child out of the belief that death is a better fate than having to live with the horrors of reality.

The first boy I dated was white. I never felt I could match his looks, wit, good humor because of my brown skin, black eyes, and black hair. So ordinary. So mundane. So ugly. Of course, this was a feeling I internalized and never communicated to him. Shortly after our relationship ended, I readExplaining romantic love and physical beauty, Morrison wrote that they were"probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.

My very first job was my very worst one. I was new to the field in which I was working, naive about navigating it, and struggled to carve and own my space in it. My work environment was sexist, and I was body-shamed for the kind of clothing I wore. I was also the only woman on my team. I continued to battle these forces as I didn't want to give up too soon at my first job. Ultimately I had to come to terms with the reality that my workplace was denying me the respect I deserved.

Not too long ago, I was chatting with another friend who is at a dead-end in her job. She was struggling to keep up with the pressure of the many deadlines that were defining her weeks, and her mental health was suffering. I told her to take things slow.

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