"We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life."
Please read Marina Keegan's final piece in the Yale Daily News - her last published words before her graduation and before her death at age 22.
I have read this piece about five times since I heard about it seven hours ago. It's halting and beautiful and ultimately terrifying for this newfangled 20-something. Maybe there's something to learn here.
I look at my writing and I cringe at how behind I am, how people who remember the same Saturday morning cartoons as me are spewing their mind's clutter onto a page and actually making sense.
I want to be good. But don't we all?
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