I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really w — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really w — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really w — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really w — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really w — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
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I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal.

— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
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