“The doctor says it’s asthma. The psychiatrist says it’s anxiety. But deep down inside I know that the day you walked out, the day you told me to go was the day I stopped knowing how to breathe.”
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Took out a line. Original: The doctor says it’s asthma. The psychiatrist says it’s anxiety. My mother says it’s the fumes. ‘It’s just the city smoke’, she replies. But deep down inside I know that the day you walked out, the day you told me to go was the day I stopped knowing how to breathe.
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