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I Paid In Full
The other day, I made a post showcasing my weight loss on Instagram with two images — one of me at my heavier weight and the other of me that day. I captioned the image of my heavier self with “You’ll pay a price,” and the other with “I paid in full.” I got so…
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I Helped Him Hurt Her
Earlier this year, I took part in an affair. I got involved with a boy that I knew had a long-distance girlfriend. I didn’t know her…I had never met her. That made it easy for me to think she wasn’t a real person, and I used that to cope with what I was doing. I…
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Becoming Someone You’ll Never Meet
The other day, I was thinking about my birthday coming up next year and what trip I wanted to take. I was thinking of taking a solo trip to New York. I’ve never been but have always wanted to visit…see the Statue of Liberty, go to the Natural History Museum, see a show on Broadway…
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Heart on Fire, Soul at Sea
There once was a boy in my life who made me feel like I was on fire. It felt like he ignited me from the moment I met him. I’d never felt that way in my life—every feeling I had with him felt so new, like magic sitting right in front of me. There was…
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Finding My Heart Again
I had a great day today. God…today was the epitome of great. I ran 13.1 miles at a pace far faster than I expected. This past week had been the biggest mental struggle of my life… my brain just wouldn’t stop, and I completely stopped believing in myself and who I was. I got lost…
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Who are you?
A couple of years ago, I went on a date where the man asked me, Who are you? I was twenty-three at the time, and he was a decade older. I didn’t know exactly what he was asking, so I said, “I’m Yuka Kawata, twenty-three years old, college graduate, and future doctor.” He smiled and said, Okay, but…