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Age 16, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA I hope you can forgive me For pushing you away, for breaking your heart. I loved you, I did. But how was I supposed to love you when I couldn’t even love [...]

Age 15, New York, New York, USA I hope you forgive me. 9th grade. I made you feel small because I felt small. When I called you weird, I was starving myself. When I told you your hair was too [...]

Age 13+, Harlem, New York, USA Forgive Me, Me. 7th grade. Curious. Grandma puts you in a choke hold. Mom gets diagnosed terminal. Grandma wants you dead. Room is dark. What. Was. Happening? You [...]

Age 14, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA It was supposed to be my year. I was supposed to become stable and move on from my past. I met this person who changed my mindset completely. We had begun [...]

Age 14, Seiko, Washington, USA I hope you forgive me for hurting you. We met in Fairfax. The second I saw you, I knew it was love. We never left each other’s side until we were forced [...]

Age 17, Jacksonville, Texas, USA To the boy who once was my everything: I hope you forgive me. We were 13 and so blindly in love. Middle school was the era of first loves and finding your path. I [...]

Age 13, Spokane, Washington, USA I hope you can forgive me. We should have stayed away. We shouldn’t have stuck around. It ruined us. Surrounding ourselves with drugs, rape, and older men. [...]

Age 16, Virginia, USA To my younger, fragile self: I hope you forgive me For the first time I used the blade from a pencil sharpener just to see why all the people I followed on social media were [...]

Age 16, Montana, USA Dear Me, I hope you can forgive me. I hope you can forgive the sleepless nights when my brain kept thinking about all the dumb stuff I’d done. Looking back now it [...]

Age 15, Georgia, USA You were my first love. I was 15 going on 16. You, 17 going on 18. Two years wasn’t a big deal. At least, not until you went to college and I was left as a junior in [...]