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  And it'll hit you. It'll hit you when you're shopping for paper towels and it'll hit you when you're loading your car with groceries.

 You'll sit in your car and you'll think about who you were last week before that and so on until you finally get to who you were ten years ago, and you'll run your hands through your hair. 

It'll hit you.

 It'll hit you when you're pulling in your driveway and it'll hit you when you put the can of beans in the pantry. You'll look around your kitchen and glance out the mini window above the sink to see grass outside.

 It'll hit you. 

It'll hit you that this is the person you are and not the person you were. You aren't screaming in your pillow at 1am hoping it'll help your pain. You aren't staring in the mirror pointing out every flaw. 

You aren't holding your stomach as you cry, trying to muffle the sobs. Instead, you're shopping for new curtains and trying to figure out which pillow goes best with your couch,

 because this is life, and it'll hit you. You made it  

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