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Katrina Shinley's avatar

You captured something so deeply universal yet hauntingly personal and it feels like you’ve given voice to the soul in all of us. I don't think anyone could have expressed it more, perfectly or beautifully.

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lina's avatar

thank you so so much for leaving such a beautiful comment, it’s made my whole day! so grateful to have someone like yourself reading my writing, let alone enjoying and relating the way you do, <3!

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Faith's avatar

I don't have the words to describe how much I love this one. It will live in my head rent free thank you so much for writing it💓💓

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lina's avatar

ahhh thank you so much!! so happy you enjoyed it :))<3!

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stzy's avatar

"longing is the editor that never sleeps"

this is so philosophically dense I love it

i have so much to learn from your visceral and beautiful way of writing wow

i write about similar things to educate but you make us feel it and see ourselves in it

this is the first publication i'm sure ill come back to

good shit lina wow

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lina's avatar

ahhh thank you so much!!! appreciate your support more than you know :) <3

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Quinn K's avatar

Wow, this line hit me hard, “somewhere under the ribcage, the old hunger flickers”

Thank you for writing this, it really made me feel seen and touched a part of my soul

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lina's avatar

ahhh thank you thank you for this, so grateful my writing could reach you <3

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Jordan's avatar

I’m only about 3 sentences in and you’re changing my brain chemistry

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lina's avatar

🫢<3

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Rimsha's avatar

this is so beautifully written.

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lina's avatar

thank you so much ! :)

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Nea's avatar

Wow, this is insanely beautiful ❤️

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lina's avatar

thank u thank u

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Elaren Blythe's avatar

You wrote this so beautifully!!

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lina's avatar

thank you elaren!! <3

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Gray Silver's avatar

Beautiful. Remarkably truthful. I loved reading this!

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lina's avatar

so happy to hear :))!

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Natalia's avatar

you managed to put into words such a familiar feeling that many of us have no idea how to verbalise or even explain. It was breathtaking! cannot wait for the next part!!!

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lina's avatar

ahh thank you so much!! it’s coming soon <33

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elika 🧚's avatar

i am crying in a cafe, what a beautiful read. thank you for sharing this with us. i will definitely be coming back to this one.

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lina's avatar

what a beautiful comment!! thank you for taking the time to read this piece (sorry for the tears) <3

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Coleman's avatar

I don't even know what to say. This was breathtaking? If that is even a word good enough to describe what you have produced?

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lina's avatar

ahhh wow wow thank you???!! so so grateful:))

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Echoes From My Soul's avatar

Unbelievably beautiful

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lina's avatar

thank you<33!

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noe ❦'s avatar

oh my god

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lina's avatar

<3

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MJ Bel's avatar

This was a breathtaking essay, Lina, and I’m saving it for future reference. Thank you for so clearly and wholly articulating the condition of yearning. One can learn a lot from your writing.

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lina's avatar

thank YOU for commenting this, makes me so happy and excited my writing is able to reach someone like you :)

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Adanna's avatar

It was so deeply comforting for me to read this. You’ve captured in writing the intangible but oh so real feeling of yearning & the significance of wrestling with it. Thank you 🤍

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lina's avatar

thank YOU for taking the time to read this one! <3

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