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    • The Wait
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    • Push
    • Vanishing Shapes
    • The Swim
    • Sometimes...
    • Cocoon
    • The Sum of My Parts
    • Just a Simple Melody
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    • Ids Narda Toomur
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    • The Passenger
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    • Code Blue
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    • Too Much to Camambert
    • Nanu Nanu
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The Outsider

February 22, 2017 Emma Brooker

 I have always been an outsider; a greaser, a Soda Pop.

A spectator. Never really fitting in, never really getting there.

A moth, butting its’ tiny head against a light bulbs hot glow, over and over again.

It has a lot to do with where I sat in the family unit, I suppose. The last one; the littlest, 6 years behind everyone else. Always trying to catch up, to join in, to feel included.

Making myself as invisible as I could, at the long Christmas table, before I was discovered and exiled to the kids card table in the corner, away from the murmuring, adult magic.

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Tags outsider, memoir, relationships, friendships, social anxiety
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