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When I stopped seeing my own light

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Maïlys Ray
Feb 27, 2025
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Ever since I published my last personal essay, I’ve been thinking a lot about my younger self. The recent social media trend ‘I met my younger self for coffee’, inspired by Jenna Cecelia’s poem, only fueled this reflection.

The younger version of myself I keep revisiting is the one I was in my twenties, and before 2010…

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