old habits

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I woke up and my head started pounding.

"wow, this is brutal" I say out loud

I walked into the bathroom and looked into the mirror all I could see was every single flaw.  my bruised ribs, my bruised cheek a bruise that covered most of my stomach and my legs from when he dragged me up the stairs. at this point I was crying with my eyes blurred I opened the mirror and moved opened the box of bandaids, perfect here what I was looking for a razor....

I looked into the mirror and leaned back into the wall and hugged my legs I remembered the song "baby don't cut" and thought to my self ...

one cut two cuts three cuts four ...

I didn't actually know I was cutting myself until I relized the pain that was being brought onto from the cuts over cuts ... I quickly  leaned over the tub and grabbed the cold rag and wrapped it gently over my arm... and fell into a sleep ...

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