• What’s your favorite time of day? At the end of each day, for a brief moment, everyone in my house quiets before bed time. They all get immersed in their nighttime routines and the anxiety and weight of the day seems to dissipate from their bodies like mist as they fall asleep. I can almost

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  • Myself

    Myself

    Who do you spend the most time with? When I was younger I found that being alone felt like I would disappear somehow and I craved company like I craved the air I breathed. Over time, people’s company became heavier and eventually suffocating. I learned the hard way that being surrounded by others also meant

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  • A Quote To Live By

    Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? Yes but it’s not a serious one. It’s from The Office where Michael is taking about his leadership, and he’s asking whether he would prefer people to fear him or love him. His response is “Would I rather be feared or

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  • Voluntary Deportation

    Voluntary Deportation

    Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. This is a divisive topic today the least. When I was 18 I applied for legal residency after living in the United States illegally since I was 3 years old. I waited until I was an adult so that I could

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  • Perspective

    Perspective

    How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? For fear of stating the obvious…I’ll avoid the big “our experiences shape us into better people” speech. Instead I’ll talk about the opposite of that. I’m 37 years old, and when I look back at the person I was 10

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  • To Speak My Dreams Out Loud

    This question called my attention, and at first my answers were more…superficial. I thought of things like skydiving, paragliding, surfing and all the extreme sports I’m terrified of. Each time I would brush it off and would come back to writing a book, the thought almost too quick to take it seriously. I didn’t want

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  • For The Lucky Ones

    Reading the replies to this prompt, the funny ones, weird ones, traditional ones make me realize how lucky and fortunate one should consider themselves to be able to say they have family traditions to share. Family traditions imply that to some degree, your family was…..well….together and got along to some extent. It implies that you

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  • Heal My Inner Child

    List five things you do for fun. 1. Watch anime. I always loved it but I couldn’t afford it as a kid and as an adult I have all streaming services and binge on Anime for fun. 2. Read. For the same reasons as above, I never had access to books, so now I splurge

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  • To write for a living…

    To write for a living…

    Ever since I can remember I always loved reading and writing. The idea that someone would be hanging on every single word I wrote as I told a story that came out of everything or anything rattling in my head has always been my dream. I considered writing a book many times, then that feeling

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