Imagination Collaboration 2021-2022

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Alternate Universe in Which I Love Myself More (After Olivia Gatwood)

i am seventeen and regret nothing. i eat three meals without reminding i only buy clothes that fit me. i only buy clothes that make me fall in love with me which is to say i do not wait for him to fall in love with me which is to say i love me even if he doesn't

that in another universe, love has always been all hunger & heartache & hysteria but here it is just love here he does not need me but wants me here i want to be happy more than I want to be wanted

when he holds me, i hold my gravity. when he lets go, i do not fall to pieces. here, my heart beats in my chest 72


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