Letters For Youth
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"I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell." - Walt Whitman.
A collection of essays that span the majority of our nameless narrator's early teenage and young adult years in life. About relationships; how they form, how they fall apart, how they reshape again and again. How we move closer to one another and sometimes drift away. Like balloons in a cloudy sky. We grow, we depart, but we never forget these moments of youth.
Though these are all essays, they are letters to certain people. These are for them and for youth.
There will be a total of 10 essays for this collection: each story is ranging from fun, light-hearted romps to something along the lines of being "expresso-depresso". These can be read in any order. Go nuts!
4th Essay out Wednesday 12/04/19
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