I wrote a novel in my closet when I was 10. Then I put it in a box under my bed.
In high school I wrote love poems and hate poems in my bedroom with the door shut, lights low, brooding under the galaxy of glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to my ceiling. Those got put in a box under the bed, too.
In New York City I was wholeheartedly the cliche, writing songs …
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