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Earn Your Stripes
Don't ever cut yourself it's
gross and no one will
hang out with you.
They call it a cry for attention developed by people who have nothing better to do.
It destroys trust and burns bridges and even after it's over you're still watched when you f***ing sleep
and your arms are striped with s***ty pink tattoos you did yourself on a drunk night and will
regret forever.
When you start to destroy yourself
there won't be a day in the winter
that goes by when you don't think
about it.
You will never recover.
You will never see yourself in the
same light and the
shame
will claw at your lungs and it won't stop until you cry out of frustration and try to escape your
skin.
Your own skin
that you broke
your own skin that you ruined
that you tainted. Don't
cut yourself.
It's gross
and no one
will hang out with you.

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