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How To Make It Out Alive

by Katarina Tyler

By Katarina TylerPublished 9 months ago 1 min read

How To Make It Out Alive:

Step 1: You can still love him. You can love him your whole life long. But you cannot sleep in the mouth of a lion.

Step 2: Leave. Pack as soon as you have the courage. Don’t wait for it to pass, it may never come again.

Step 3: Remember when you watched that nature documentary and the Lion had to eat the gazelle anyway?

Step 4: Take everything you need. You cannot come back. Take no excuses or belongings of his.

Step 5: Lions live inside of pride for a reason.

Step 6: Go to your mother’s. Your sister’s. Your cousin’s. They will hold your heart till you can open your chest wide enough to fit it back inside.

Step 7: Remember: even a Lion is afraid in a den full of Daniels.

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