Healing My Inner Teenager with Taylor Swift

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My teen years were marked by an unyielding desperation for male approval, a fruitless search for myself within the possession of someone else. I spent those years hopelessly aiming for the moving, undefinable target of ‘enough.’

When my mind keeps me up at night with replays of my worst moments, it is those years that haunt me.