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The notebook is called “The No Words.”
Each letter has negative words underneath it, sorted by color. The yellow ones are easier, the orange words are a bit harder, and the red ones? Jeez, the red ones took me on a trip to hell when even writing them.
It did not work at first. I would look at the closed notebook with all the negative words in it, shudder, then jam it back into my drawer.
Which defied the whole purpose of making myself desensitized.
So, during my teenage years, I would get that list out and read it aloud, throw up a little, feel more nauseous, hide in my closet for an hour, and then take a cold shower and eat vanilla ice cream.
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