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Some days I turn every lock and pull the curtains shut, crawl deep inside where no one can reach, and let it sit heavy and quiet with me. Some days I square my shoulders and stare it right in the eye—refuse to flinch, refuse to let it see it got to me. Some days I lock all feeling away until I’m stone, quiet and steady and unreadable, because if I feel one thing I know I’ll feel it all. And some days? I wait until the house is dark and the world is gone, and I let it spill out—shaking, messy, ugly, and raw, where only the walls will ever know.

It doesn’t just fade like a bruise. It changes. Sometimes it softens into something I can carry. Sometimes it hardens me in places I never wanted to be hard. Sometimes I pour every bit of myself into writing, into the dark and the quiet and the things that make sense when nothing else does—just to outrun it for a little while, just to breathe again.

And most days? I do all of it. Back to back, all tangled up. There’s no one right way to hurt. There’s only whatever gets you through the minute.