Ms. Leah Lee

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If They Don’t Want Us to Succeed, Why Do They Let Us Hope?

Or, We are no longer satisfied with surviving.

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Ms. Leah Lee
Apr 06, 2025
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Hope is dangerous.
That’s why they let us have it.

They dangle it like a carrot, freshly washed, glittering in sunlight.

A future version of yourself, self-made and thriving. The house. The flexible sch…

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