I Thought Demons Were Waiting for Me in the Closet

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I didn’t grow up afraid of monsters.
I grew up afraid that demons were real—tracking my thoughts, hiding in my bedroom, waiting for me to slip up.

Not metaphor. Not myth.
This was the spiritual world I was handed as a child. And for a while, it was more real than anything I could touch.

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