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🔥🔥🔥 I know these women and your words speak their names like sailors on ship decks telling stories in hushed tones of whirlpool, wonder and wild. Thank you.

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this was stunning, thank you💞

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Thank you so much!

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Mariah, this piece inspired me so much. I saved it so that I might come back to it since I hear in your writing so many reasons why I write.

Thank you for writing and being you, and in doing both, world building realities where we can be fully alive.

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Rose, I am so glad that you see yourself and many of your own reasons for writing through my words. May we both continue to use our gift to shape a better world through our words. Thank you for being here <3

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thank you so much for this, i found myself many times in this. stunning.

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🤎🥺

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Your writing is everything! ♥️

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Thank you so much Karen!

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This. Is. Beautiful!!! I am speechless. Absolutely breathtaking! You, sweet Mariah, are a blessing! Keep doing your thing, Sis! I’m jumping on board and hitting the subscribe button! Can’t wait to read more of your work. 🩷

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Thank you for being here Megan! I appreciate your support so much!!

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What a beautiful peace, Mariah.

I write for me, first and foremost. I write for all the mentally ill black girls who spent their life misunderstood by themselves and others. I write for those who need to see themselves in the lives of others to know they're okay. I write from my own pain, emotions, insights, and experiences. I write from an empathetic and loving place. I write from a yearning to see more words like mine from people who look like me.

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"for those who need to see themselves in the lives of others to know they're okay." 👏🏾👏🏾 I love that! And to write for yourself first and foremost is a must. Those who need your words will undoubtedly find them.

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Beautiful. Also, incredibly powerful. We should be teaching our girls this kind of female power and presence. Excellent work.

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The kind of power and presence I hope we can build for the generations to come 👏🏾 thank you!

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I absolutely loved this one. Saving it!

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Thank you so much!

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