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I am a nineteen year old girl who for all intents and purposes is a virgin,

I am a nineteen year old girl who has been sexually assaulted too many times.

Looking at those two statements it doesn’t seem like they are about me because since i was twelve years old i thought that since these boys hadn’t raped me then there was nothing really wrong. Years of my life have been spent distracting myself anytime i start to feel something negative and i’ve decided to start taking back my heart and putting it back together. I’m just not sure where to start, so here i am sharing some of my story on the internet.

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Love is not just about making each other happy. Love is an uncontained sea of hope, joy and passion. Love swells like a tidal wave and crashes to the shore in rage and utter fear. Oh yes, the ocean fears but is fearless all at once. No matter what you want or how hard you shake your fist the ocean will still remain, ever constant in it’s movements and patterns, but also in it’s depths and unknown’s. Because no matter how hard you try and contain the sea it will always make a way to seep through the chink in the armor.

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[librarycompany]

This week’s publishers’ binding is elegant in its simplicity. We love the delicate gold ferns against the green cloth, and the bevelled edge boards create a luxurious hand-feel. Notice also the type on the gold-stamped title. This spare and understated design is consistent with the aesthetic trend in American publishers’ bindings in the 1860s. Found on our copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s May-Day, and Other Pieces (Boston, 1867). #PublishersBindingThursday 

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more! 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May-day, and other pieces. Boston : Ticknor and Fields.  1867.     

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This week’s cover: “The Swamp,” by John Cuneo

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[oneweekoneband]

…such phrasing does, as Mitchell intends, spring on the listener “a feeling of kinship between what you might experience and the archetypal experience. I’m not alone in this feeling. Someone came up with a metaphor for this hundreds of years ago.”

- Anais Mitchell in The Independent

I’ve taken to saying, when I play “Why We Build the Wall” now at my own shows: “This song is ten years old… Any resemblance of any contemporary political figures to the King of the Underworld is purely coincidental.”

- Anais Mitchell in the Huffington Post

HOW IS A GREEK CHORUS LIKE A LAWYER / THEY’RE BOTH IN THE BUSINESS OF SEARCHING FOR A PRECEDENT / FINDING AN ANALOGY / LOCATING A PRIOR EXAMPLE / SO AS TO BE ABLE TO SAY “THAT TERRIBLE THING WE’RE WITNESSING NOW IS / NOT UNIQUE YOU KNOW IT HAPPENED BEFORE / OR SOMETHING MUCH LIKE IT

- Antigonick, Anne Carson