Chasing Butterflies
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Last published Tue, Jan 28, 2020
Life. Life makes people be someone they're not. It makes people lie just to succeed. It makes people lie just to believe they're alive.
Do you ever think that maybe everyone lies about who they are?
That no one knows exactly how to act or live, they just pretend that everything's okay but you know, deep down, that something is just... off about them?
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