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Don’t Bring a Chick to Your Bedroom If You Write on Your Walls.

Don’t Bring a Chick to Your Bedroom If You Write on Your Walls.

The very thing they thought they loved is suddenly in sharp focus

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Jul 11, 2025
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Don’t Bring a Chick to Your Bedroom If You Write on Your Walls.
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I write on the walls. I don’t mean notes on sticky pads or ideas on a whiteboard—I mean the walls. Ink, marker, oil pencil. Floor to ceiling. Quotes, fragments, phrases that scare me. Things I’m not ready to say out loud, so I trap them there like flies in amber. Honestly some parts of my house look like the beautiful mind meme.

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