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Another gray Tuesday morning. My thumb hovered over the post button as I stared at yesterday's cafe photo - that sad beige puddle in a white cup looked nothing like the warm, cinnamon-scented moment I'd lived. My caption about the barista's accidental heart-shaped foam swirl felt like shouting into a void. Just another ghost in the social media graveyard. That familiar knot tightened in my stomach, the one that whispers "why bother?" as I nearly deleted the whole damn thing.

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Rain lashed against my dorm window as I stared blankly at my political science textbook, the ink bleeding into meaningless shapes. For weeks, I'd been drowning in ideological soup - Marx's labor theory of value floating beside Bakunin's anti-statist manifestos like oil and water refusing to mix. That Thursday night felt particularly desperate, my highlighted texts mocking me with their dog-eared pages while my professor's voice echoed: "You can't understand modern socialism without grasping the

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