Preet
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Preet
@preekaaaa
somewhere between living and surviving
Katılım Nisan 2023
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My daughter stopped coming out of her room six months after her best friend died in a car accident. She was fourteen and the grief swallowed her whole, turned her into this ghost who only existed behind a closed door I wasn't allowed to knock on. Her therapist said to give her space, her father said to give her time, but I was watching my child disappear and nobody could tell me how to pull her back. I'd stand outside her door at night listening to her cry and feeling like the most useless mother who ever lived.
She mentioned once, months ago before everything went dark, that her friend always said if she could paint her room any color it would be hot pink because her parents would never let her. Such a small stupid thing to remember but it was the only piece of her I had left that still felt alive. I bought the paint on a Tuesday, the kind of bright aggressive pink that makes your eyes hurt, and I didn't ask permission. Just walked into her room while she was at a therapy appointment and started painting her door. When she came home she stood in the hallway staring at it and I thought I'd made a terrible mistake, crossed some line I couldn't uncross.
She touched the door and started crying, said "this was her favorite color." I told her I knew, that I remembered everything she'd ever told me even when she thought I wasn't listening. We spent the next three days painting her whole room together, barely talking but working side by side. Found custom drawer pulls and hooks in a shop in matching pink and installed them while she told me stories about her friend I'd never heard. Started a small shop myself actually, selling painted doorstops and coat hooks in wild colors, every purchase going into a fund for teen grief counseling. My daughter helped me photograph them last week and I heard her laugh for the first time in eight months. This door didn't fix everything. But it opened something between us that had been locked shut. Her friend would've loved how bright it is. My daughter says the same thing every time she comes home now. That's enough.
By Jasmine lamb

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Saw a sea of startups today at the AI Impact summit doing some really cool stuff. Agritech and Healthtech were the most prominent industries of the ones I came across today.
Also, met the lovely @AnshMehraaa — some great AI content he's putting out there.🥰



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@preekaaaa @AnshMehraaa I was also thinking of going with you
But then college tha so couldn’t
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@GothamCatBurglr Grammarly can be used as an extension, automatically gives suggestions, on quillbot you've to copy and paste. I think that's the main difference.
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@preekaaaa exchange playlists with 'em, sometimes they share bangers
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