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Therapy
This has to be the most beautiful journal I have ever laid my fingers on! The leather is soft and smooth with small intricate designs all over the cover. Shooting stars over a great world tree; the moon with all it's craters posted at the corner. This journal will be my very first formal book to contain all of my poems and small drabbles of thought! The councilor said writing would help to keep the negative feelings at bay and I am starting to believe her. Just holding this journal in my hand is already causing happiness and glee to bubble at the surface! This will be a secret though, just as every session I have, just as every smile I have to paint on my mask to wear every day. No one will know of the horror and pain that I harbor or of the nightmares that keep me awake at night. The saddest part of the journal, though, is that once I fill it with my most secret feelings, I will destroy it and with it my feelings will leave me once and for all and I will be happy. I hope.