“Good morning.
If you feel lesser-than today,
as if you should be different
so that you can be loved—
If you are wrestling yourself into
a shape to make yourself more pleasing
to others—
hold your heart close. Listen to it sing.
Take a deep breath.
Eyes up. Let's go.”
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