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Student @ Babcock University
Living in Nuance
<p>She doesn’t fit into neat boxes.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not the good girl.</p><p>Not the bad girl.</p><p>Not the holy one.</p><p>Not the wild one.</p><p><br/></p><p>She drinks sometimes.</p><p>She has loved.</p><p>She thinks deeply about her future.</p><p>She plans strategically.</p><p>She prays.</p><p>She questions.</p><p>She grows.</p><p><br/></p><p>She doesn’t panic at her own complexity.</p><p><br/></p><p>She refuses to reduce herself just to make other people comfortable.</p><p>She refuses to stretch into a version of herself that performs purity.</p><p>She refuses to shrink into a version that performs rebellion.</p><p><br/></p><p>She lives in nuance.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes she misses ease.</p><p>The kind of friendship where you gist for hours without calculating tomorrow.</p><p>The kind of closeness that feels spontaneous, not strategic.</p><p><br/></p><p>But she also knows she cannot unlearn what she has learned.</p><p>She cannot unknow what growth has taught her.</p><p><br/></p><p>So she sits in the in-between.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not reckless.</p><p>Not rigid.</p><p><br/></p><p>Layered.</p><p>Resilient.</p><p><br/></p><p>Every choice she has made has shaped her.</p><p>And she carries them without shame.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nuance can be lonely.</p><p>But it is honest.</p><p><br/></p><p>And somewhere along the way, she realized—</p><p><br/></p><p>She is me.</p><p><br/></p><p>-IC</p>
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