When Your Life Doesn’t Make for ‘Good Content’

Can life be beautiful even when no one recognizes its beauty?

Sarah Nicole Lemon
Human Parts
Published in
10 min readSep 23, 2019

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II am holding the toilet brush as if it’s a weapon. My cut-offs are short. Sunglasses on. I’ve slipped angry metal music into my ears to clean these bathrooms. I get $50 to clean six bathrooms and a laundry room, and this extra money, twice a week, means the difference between…

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