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[Youtube Rabbit hole]
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So it started with Kids React videos and then I tumbled down the rabbit hole and wound up rekindling my love for Shane Koyczan's work.
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Aaaand if you haven't seen the To This Day Project, watch it now. Just...you know, maybe have some tissues handy
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To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan
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Holy shit, Jen. I'm bawling my eyes out.
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But that was so good.
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I know, it gets me every time, but it's beautifully worded, isn't it?
oldbadpoetry
It's gorgeous
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The bit that got me was the mom bit and then it just got worse
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my crying, not the video
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Oh the kids' definition of beauty?
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I know, that part gets me, and the part from the circus metaphor
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My mom was born with a cleft palate. And she got surgery for it, but not until she was in grade school and she's never felt beautiful a day in her life. And that kills me. One day I wish she could know that's how we feel about her.
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everything from the circus metaphor on has me like literally just ugly sobbing
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Aww bb
oldbadpoetry
brb, gotta text my mom that she's beautiful
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See what you goddamn started
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awww yas do that thing!
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I've watched this thing so many times I can recite most of it along with him, I love it so fucking much
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Like the part that hits me the actual hardest:
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"And if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer. Stare a little longer, because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself; you signed it 'they were wrong.'"
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and everything after that I'm a disgusting mess, so
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They were wrong. I wish I could make every kid in school watch it.
oldbadpoetry
and understand it
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If you look at the comments section...some of those commenters did see it in school
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teachers are showing it and that's amazing
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GOOD.
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I'm going to share it with my sister and hope she can show her kids in school.
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Good, you should. I think everyone should see it, tbh
oldbadpoetry
Are all the videos like this? /watches all of them
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not ALL of them, but a lot of them yeah
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he's an amazing poet
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Troll is a good one, really good one
oldbadpoetry
God, he is amazing
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Thank you for sharing this
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You are so so welcome
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