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BERKELEY'S NEWS • JUNE 03, 2023

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I’m 23 tomorrow… feels weird putting it into the universe after trying not to think about it all year. I am definitely not where I thought I’d be as I turn another year older.
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I’m 23 tomorrow… feels weird putting it into the universe after trying not to think about it all year. I am definitely not where I thought I’d be as I turn another year older.
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Throwing a surprise party can be extremely nerve-wracking, especially in a shared living space where the person you are trying to surprise can walk in at any given moment.
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Throwing a surprise party can be extremely nerve-wracking, especially in a shared living space where the person you are trying to surprise can walk in at any given moment.
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Every year, one more poem in free verse— / Still frames of silent tears and raucous nights / Snapshots documenting my best and worst / An artist’s impression of maturity and moonlight
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Every year, one more poem in free verse— / Still frames of silent tears and raucous nights / Snapshots documenting my best and worst / An artist’s impression of maturity and moonlight
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Today, you get a year older. And you getting older means I, too, am getting older. The more I grow up, the closer I feel to you.
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Today, you get a year older. And you getting older means I, too, am getting older. The more I grow up, the closer I feel to you.
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These suggestions are generic enough that they’re not specific to any person, but niche enough that people likely don’t already have them.
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These suggestions are generic enough that they’re not specific to any person, but niche enough that people likely don’t already have them.
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You’re not eating sweet potato cake, but instead, it is a comically large slice of pizza. Strangely, it makes sense. Everything makes sense. 
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You’re not eating sweet potato cake, but instead, it is a comically large slice of pizza. Strangely, it makes sense. Everything makes sense. 
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turning twenty-one feels like / i’ve just turned seven three times. / the lessons feel so simple. / but simple is not easy / to do well. being grown up / is but the sum of small parts
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turning twenty-one feels like / i’ve just turned seven three times. / the lessons feel so simple. / but simple is not easy / to do well. being grown up / is but the sum of small parts
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I want to laugh more. I want to share happiness, but more importantly, I want to share the pieces of my mom that I always carry to the people in my life.
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I want to laugh more. I want to share happiness, but more importantly, I want to share the pieces of my mom that I always carry to the people in my life.
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Love was the only thing that we could always afford. And it was worth more than any gift or dollar amount.
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Love was the only thing that we could always afford. And it was worth more than any gift or dollar amount.
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This birthday blues was a side effect of my disabled childhood, my birthday a casualty of my own internalized ableism, its voice ever-present: Nobody will want to come[; you don’t have any friends anyway; and you don’t have anything in common with people your age.
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This birthday blues was a side effect of my disabled childhood, my birthday a casualty of my own internalized ableism, its voice ever-present: Nobody will want to come[; you don’t have any friends anyway; and you don’t have anything in common with people your age.
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