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Velvet in the Wilderness

If an imaginary woman falls in the forest, does she make a sound?

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Sep 07, 2020
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It would be easy to hop onto a raft and float down the River of Despair, which is a fast-moving river and wide:

I am fat. I don’t seem to know how to make my body be how I want it to be anymore. He doesn’t love me anymore. I am imagina…

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