this is a lesson in reading between the /'s

There was a time when o/-/-/-/-/m was my G/-/-. The pinnacle of all my s/-/-/-/-/-/-/a/l encounters. I have l/-/-/d about it most of my life because I was a----d of the repercussions for such a so-called "s/-/n". There was a time when I u/-/-/d L/-/-/s to fill the v/-/-/-/'s within me because I was too t/-/m/-/d to approach a G/-/- that was only available via m/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/n, too s/-/-/-/-/d to imagine that I am s/-/-/f-s/-/-/-/i/c/-/-/-/t and div/-/-/-/-/y inspired and l/-/-/-/d un/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/y. There was a time when I (-/m a h/-/-/-/-/-/-/t/e) thought I knew a/-/- of the world's p/-/-/n because I had been a/-/-/-/-/d as a c/-/-/-/d, my i/n/n/-/-/-/-/c/e taken by a w/-/-/-/n held down by a m/-/n who r/a/p/e/d for pleasure and payed in d/-/-/-/s. There was a time when I // for a/-/-/-/-/-/-/n thinking I could wear the world's h/-/-/t on my s/-/-/- and make it v/i/s/i/b/l/e so that we could be s/-/-n; not realizing that I was never a part of that s/u/-/-/-/r/i/n/g, that "w/e" no matter how hard I t/-/-/-/d. There was a time when I didn't s/-/-/-/k up for y/-/u because it was in/c/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/t to my p/a/r/a/d/i/g/m.

There was a time when I let go of the past.

And the lines that defined disappeared.

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