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What I’ve learned about trauma:

It isn’t as easy as being “something that happened to you”

A package you opened once

You will wake up in a new zip code

Have to wander your way home

Carry a few of the things you love to this new place you live in now

So you buy throw pillows

You put up twinkle lights and have a big celebration

Point at the open windows and tell everyone who has ever seen you crying,

“Look! Look how I have not caged myself!

Look what I have built out of two paint buckets and the blessing of my still here body!”

But trauma leans into the bar cart

Spills a drink on the new rug

Breaks off the door handle on his way out

Trauma sends you letters without warning for the rest of your life just so you remember

Trauma knows exactly where you live

Who did you think built the house?

- What I’ve Learned About Trauma

by Brenna Twohy

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