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The Ugly Truth

May 14, 2010, Posted by Angel at 8:29 am

I’ve become a master at the mask.
It’s not a mask to hide treachery,
or a mask to hide true intentions.
But it does hide the truth.
It does hide the sneer when I change my clothes.
The fat, everywhere, spilling all around me.
Choking me, hiding me, keeping me from being.
It swallows me whole and buries me alive.
It does hide [...]

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Thoughtful

November 5, 2009, Posted by Angel at 11:51 pm

I’m feeling a bit like a caterpillar going through a metamorphosis lately.  Everything seems like it’s shifting and morphing into something new, but the truth is that the layers I’ve built up around me..for protection, out of fear, from frustration, out of hurt..they are falling away and the person that I’ve always been inside is [...]

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Fathers, be good to your daughters

August 13, 2009, Posted by Angel at 11:09 am

So I just wrote a mammoth comment on Brit’s post about self-image.  Because I am wordy, if nothing else.  But I respect her space and so I cut myself short and decided to respond further in my own space.
I have struggled with my self-image since I was about seven years old.  Before that I had [...]

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BlogWho? BlogHer! Thanks to HairZing!

June 26, 2009, Posted by Angel at 9:37 pm

So, we are just about a month away from the conference that has come to be known as THE conference for blogging women, BlogHer.  Last year I was new to blogging, and I wanted to go SO FREAKING BAD that I tried for days to rearrange my finances to allow me to go.  Unsuccessfully, I [...]

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A talking contradiction

March 8, 2009, Posted by Angel at 1:46 am

I said I was going to add pics from the butterfly garden, but I didn’t. (Muvee kept freaking out about my Quicktime video, and I have no patience.)
Then I said I wasn’t at liberty to discuss something, which I then went on to discuss in great detail.
Oh well.  You know what i think right about [...]

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