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Olivia Nicole McLean
Don’t step on the beets or crush the violets. I’m a gay black woman living in the South. Urban and rustic, pragmatic and living with bipolar disorder II. Life is too short to be anything less than authentic.
Olivia Nicole McLean
Don’t step on the beets or crush the violets. I’m a gay black woman living in the South. Urban and rustic, pragmatic and living with bipolar disorder II. Life is too short to be anything less than authentic.
Embracing the violets one by one. With petals to the cheek, the lips—caressing the neck against dark skin that blushes with the color of the strokes and kisses of a flower simple and understated; the silent voice of writing the black lesbian heart.
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