Catch Me If You Can

Hide and seek in this game of life

Gail Walter
Nov 6 · 6 min read

It is dreary to write about self-loathing but it is what presently consumes me. If I write about anything else, I am once removed, to put it kindly, and lying, to tell you the truth.

Saying or bringing up the subject of self-loathing is a bit like soiling yourself in public. There is so much shame. As I write I am thinking, ‘please, can we not?’.

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