People don’t just happen, We sacrifice former versions of o… - Saeed Jones

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People don’t just happen, We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.

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Saeed Jones (born November 26, 1985) is an American poet.

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