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Stories from ARMY

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  • LonelinessFictional composite
    New city, new school, and nobody who knew my name. I played the same song on the long bus ride every morning, and somewhere in the second week I noticed the girl next to me was humming it too. We have not stopped talking since.
  • Coming-of-ageFictional composite
    I used to hide my playlist when friends came over. The day I finally let it play out loud, two of them knew every word. Turns out half my class had been hiding the same thing.
  • HealingFictional composite
    Some evenings are heavy for no reason I can explain. On those evenings I put on something slow, make tea, and let it be enough to simply get to bedtime. Getting through the day counts.
  • JoyFictional composite
    My cousin and I learned a whole dance from a video over one summer, tripping over each other in the living room. We were terrible. It is still my favourite memory of that year.

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