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When I was sixteen years old my mother informed me that she was taking me out of school to give me an education. What she meant by this was that I was going to miss two weeks of my first term of grade eleven because we were going to South East Asia. It was the
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The Beginning
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Insecurity is a lack of ethical education
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Finding peace and love in anger
I don’t have a choice but to be angry. I have tried to quell, shove down, just flat-out deny feelings of rage and disappointment for as long as I can remember. I was raised by angry people who believe our strength and protection comes from the armour of anger that we wear. I build my
