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Dear Diary: December 22, 2015

Feeling unencumbered. Preparing to hibernate.

Isabella Acosta, Simone Rembert and Kiana Flores 12/22/2015

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I’m in a state of cozy hibernation for the next two weeks. —Isabella Acosta

Simone

My parents grounded me for two and half months, effectively ruining the last birthday of my legal childhood and the entire month of November. I am now realizing this ruination extends to winter break and New Year’s Eve. Read More »

Kiana

I have always wanted to feel unencumbered. Lately, I’ve been doing things for myself and for my sanity, like speaking up in uncomfortable situations, albeit in a shaky voice, and fighting for what I believe in. Read More »

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book_kitty December 22nd, 2015 11:37 PM
I really loved and related to both of these. Always great diaries, but especially this weeks.

Kiana – YES YES YES YES YES. You go girl! I have spent most of my life, but especially the past two years, trying to figure out how to live without inhibitions, or unencumbered as you put it. I’ve listen to sad songs about it and wrote poems about it and talked to people about it. Do you know that feeling where you are laughing and running off adrenaline and you are with your friends and not thinking about yesterday or tomorrow or the next day or what people think of you or what this means or what you should be doing or how do you do what you are doing or any of it and you feel very very alive? Because I do. I keep searching for it and finding it in whisps of excitement and energies that I hold onto for years because they remind me of what life can be and what it is currently not.

oookay, got super philosophical there. I’ve been writing lots of poems and journal entries and self-reflections, so excuse my using the comments box as a diary here.

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