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Exactly What I’ve Been Looking For

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This site is exactly what I've been looking for. I am struggling so very much with the duality of life, more so lately than ever. That is to say, I am constantly battling with two halves of myself, both are very much me, but so drastically different.

There is the mask society expects us to wear every day, riddled with repressed thoughts, silenced emotions, and taboo urges. This mask is mild mannered, cookie cutter, and complacent.

Then there is the face beneath, the beast we are forced to live with in the shadows of our lonesome - passionate and fueled by primal desires deemed uncouth by the modern world.

Here is good. Here is nice. Here is anonymous. Those thoughts and feelings we wrestle with alone are now in good company.

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