Letters from a Poet

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Not gossip, just sharing slices of my sadness: a journey

Not gossip, just sharing slices of my sadness: a journey

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Letters from a Poet
May 21, 2025
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I've started and stopped writing about this at least a dozen times. Many of these unpublished works have been filled with anger. I've asked why and why and why and come up with lots of reasons. Betrayal is hard. It's not just the act itself, but the capaz. I trusted Omar to care about me, and I trusted that caring would translate to his behavior. Well, …

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