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Keep The Perks of Being a Wallflower in the Middle-School Library
• The freedom to read is a First Amendment right.
• Protecting students' freedom to read is critical to maintaining our excellent public schools. Restricting library books in Readington schools ...
![It has felt like the greatest miracle of my life to come to college and meet more people than I can count who actually want to know the many complicated versions of me. Who don’t care if we met the first week of college or just this semester when deciding whether to treat me
like I belong. Now, with graduation looming like Death itself waiting to slice down the platonic intimacy I've spent my whole life dreaming of experiencing, every potential moment of speaking up about something uncomfortable feels like dragging my friendships to the guillitone [sic] myself.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m7lu45wcug2hnge6rs3kjsa/bafkreie3tz6s6rzqqbgnhwekqc54uws4jcx72uxscdoa6amfldyi4cfeda)
![After I break up with [redacted], poetry trickles out of me. After I cut her out of my life completely, poetry bursts from me like flood water through a dam. Everything I couldn’t say while we were dating. Everything I didn’t know how to say or how to want to say. I find language to say when I transmute it to poems. I write poetry like it’s the only way to keep on breathing. I write poetry like it’s sealing gold into all the cracks in my heart. I trace lines from present griefs to grief past and narrowly missed and to shadows of my mother and grandmother woven through all my relationships.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m7lu45wcug2hnge6rs3kjsa/bafkreicywyvr2vregn7oecbhorvleollaffxchnjwkiohzbht6nu4rtypy)
