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GRETCHEN IVERS: Get Back in Your Box. You’re Making Me Think.

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How Dare You humanize yourself?
How Dare You leave your assigned statistic?
How Dare You plead for the rights I forget I have?
How Dare You be more than a job-stealing terrorist?
How Dare You challenge every single assumption I’ve built?

Oh yes.
They were right.

You are very dangerous.

Gretchen is a university student grappling with understanding the breadth of hurt in the world.

ISABELLA PINTO: Toxic

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The yelling was the first strike.
The possessive control was the second.
Now the bruised eye and busted lip signaled clearly that it was time to get out before it was too late.

He snuck out while she was sleeping, knowing that no one would believe him if he told.

Isabella Pinto is a current undergrad student at The New School, where she continues to work on her first novel.