Abbie Lee

A navy blue illustration of a mother and her daughter sitting at a piano at night. The mother and daughter face away from the camera and the daughter's head rests on her mother's shoulder as yellow hues and swirls encircle them.

It’s 2009 and I’m six years old. My brother and I share a bedroom with two twin beds and mine’s in the furthest corner.

Sketch of a naked woman picking a red fruit from a tree.

good lord, what have i done / to be so far from you?

how can you love someone without craving / their insides?

When I look back at the way I lobbed on a thick layer of eyeliner, I remember the YouTube tutorials of mostly white women with the eyes that I wanted, explaining to me just how easy it was to look as flawless as them.

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