XOXO Karen

You never forget that person. Maybe they were your friend. Maybe they were your best friend. Maybe you barely knew them, but the news hit you hard. You got the call. Or the text. Or you heard in the halls: They killed themselves. I was a senior when a pretty, outgoing freshman (I will call her Laura, but that wasn’t her name) hung up the phone from a totally normal chat with her boyfriend, wrote a note to her family and another to her friends, then took her own life. The contents of the notes were shocking in some ways (Laura, who never seemed to have a care in the world, had been suffering from what would now be recognized as long-term depression, but never showed it nor told anyone)…

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Girls' Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, April/May 2025

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