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Messages from Parents

Annie Littlewolf
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read

By Annie Littlewolf

Childhood messages

About our unworthiness,

Linger years.

New messages say

Those messages

Weren’t about us,

More them -

But don’t drum

Into our heads.

Hard to erase.

Impressions of

Ourselves remain.


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