Surely I will die. Nothing can be this painful and not kill you. Nothing.

Coco Densmore
3 min readNov 16, 2022
Photo by Gary Yost on Unsplash

May 5, 2018
Louisville

No one around here celebrates Cinco de Mayo. It’s all about Derby. I am a stranger in a very strange land.

It’s at night when it really hits me full force. The weight in my chest is unbearable. Grief turned physical. I try to distract myself. Watch a movie. But this…

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Coco Densmore

Coco Densmore writes about Embracing Her Single, being HSV-2+, living with bipolar mental illness, and overcoming childhood sexual abuse. www.cocodensmore.com.