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1 " The world turned upside down - in a good way - for one black velvet night. "
― Karen Fortunati , The Weight of Zero
2 " And someone who has never felt it can never understand what the absence of emotion feels like. It is a hopelessness of incomprehensible, unspeakable weight. "
3 " And before you make that decision to confide, you need to evaluate the friend and the relationship. Have they proved themselves worthy of you? "
4 " Nothing had happened to me. I was born with a defective mind. As my father’s sole contribution to my life knifed its way into my mother’s egg, it unleashed a faulty genetic code that warped the normal brain development of fetus me, growing wrong inside my mother. I was a thing that should never have been. "
5 " Years of best-friendness, sisterhood, reduced to a complete communication blackout. "
6 " But no, there he is, voluntarily chatting away, asking me if I watch some zombie show. I don’t. (Those shows aren’t all that appealing when you relate more to the zombies than the humans.) "
7 " But there were and are no words for that particular state of hell. I couldn't tell her that I was submerged. Numbed. Unable to feel anything. My spectrum of emotions had been obliterated. "
― Karen Fortunati
