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« We don’t do well with infinity and endless possibility, and so we break things down into individual units and into stories. And then we accidentally believe in those stories, and we accidentally start acting them out. Stories about what love is, what happiness is. What men are, what women are. Unable to shape our own stories about the madness that surrounds us, we get infected with other people’s stories, trying to ignore the discomfort that comes with an imperfect fit. […] 

Maybe the trick is […] to assume you are larger than the things you have felt over a series of years, that your history is not a list of things your body has done or been present for, that your family is not people who you spent a lot of time around as a child or carry your genetic code. Maybe the trick is to push violently at your own boundaries, to find your own contradictions, and use your teeth and nails to destroy what separates you from something else. 

I am trying. »

— Jessa Crispin, The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

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