Tell Me I’m Worth Something
We needed to matter to each other, but the words we typed told us only the worst about ourselves
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19 min readFeb 21, 2017
The first person I knew online who died was younger than me. He drowned one summer, jumping from a dock, landing in a shallow spot in a lake, getting knocked unconscious, and under he went. I’d dealt with death before, my great-grandmother and a…
