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  this one time i died for so long while i became a quantum thing so broken in its compartments light could not emit On March 2nd at 12:42 am, I added another entry to my notes page, which is titled "." on my phone. I don't know about you, but I have a designated page on my Notes app just for writing down everything that comes to mind to sort my thoughts and emotions when I'm confused about anything, especially when I'm overthinking (aka really stressed - basically always). For previous years, I physically wrote all of my jumbled thoughts on a piece of paper and ripped it up to signify the end of continuously rethinking those thoughts. This helped a lot.  But on a random evening in the summer - probably at 1 am - I was fidgeting with my Notes app and discovered that you could lock a notes page. This was incredibly groundbreaking to me (Mrs. Brewer would be so proud that I'm not wasting paper anymore). Ever since then, I started a new notes page not only to fix...

Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history at age 24 (almost 25 since her birthday is tomorrow!), as well as an award-winning writer and Sociology graduate of Harvard University. She was born and grew up in Los Angeles, beginning to write at a very young age. Recently, her writings have gotten her invitations to the White House for the Biden Inauguration on January 20, 2021 , as the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. She also performed for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, and many more. Amanda Gorman recites the poem "The Hill We Climb" at the Biden Inauguration She has written many different works, including The Hill We Climb and Change Sings  (written as a children's anthem).  After some research, I discovered that Gorman was halfway through writing The Hill We Climb  when the rioters stormed the Capitol building (I completely forgot this happened). As a result, I noticed that...