How to Leave Everything Behind

A true story for the anxious, depressed, and co-dependent

Brigette Schoenung
Published in
6 min readJun 13, 2020

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Photo by Leio McLaren (@leiomclaren) on Unsplash

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving, was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying, was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and not stop running until I reached Greenland.”

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