I started

ABOUT HEALING FROM ABUSE

Illustration by the author

I started

looking at pictures of myself

and thinking I was pretty

I started

hearing myself in iPhone videos

and liking the sound of my voice

I started

dancing without music

and not caring who stared

I started to love myself

when I stopped seeing

and speaking

to you

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