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i don’t think people understand that people can ‘love’ you and not actually love you

like my grandmother ‘loved’ me, but she also was always trying to change me. she tried to take me away from my (catholic bisexual) mother. she made me wear dresses when i was there. she always tried to get me to go to church and was always asking me if i was dating a boy yet

i spent years feeling guilty that i wasn’t what she wanted me to be until my mom told me one day “she never bothered to know the real you”

and it’s true. any time i tried to show her something about myself, even cook for her, it would be dismissed, and a replacement would be offered. even northern food was somehow a sin.

she loved me what she thought i should be, she never loved me.

bc people who love you, they love you for all the stuff that makes you you. they never consider that it makes you inconvenient.

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“It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.“

Loving someone like a prized possession is a very different thing from loving someone like a person you care about.

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THIS THO

This is so true…

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Suzanne telling herself how beautiful her black skin is and not allowing herself to believe that white skin is superior was so important, especially seeing as she could have been so easily lead to believe it isn’t after Leanne and Angie applied baby powder to her face

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“ Love. it’s just chilling, you know? - like not even wanting to go to sleep, ‘cause then you might be without 'em for a minute. and you don’t want that.” - Poussey Washington