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Loving the Filth and Forgiving the Clean

It’s about when we look and when we look away

Mar 21

Loving the Filth and Forgiving the Clean

Mar 21

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Other People Once Walked the Earth

How we can see a crystal ball in reverse and find out what happened

Mar 1

Young woman with Naval Station Norfolk ballcap on and a Navy blueshirt on, standing in a parking lot, with a large government building behind her; photo is from the chest up.

Mar 1

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Substantial Soundlessness Creates Echoes of Nothingness

When an addiction keeps a person hidden

Mar 29

Nighttime in a city; there is a wall, and a tall building behind it with a lot of windows with lights inside. Due to something that may have gone wrong with the film, two people stand at the top of the wall behind a fence but aren’t clear.

Mar 29

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About Me — Joy DeSomber

I’m so quiet that oftentimes people forget they’ve met me previously

Sep 26, 2022

Middle aged female with short gray hair sitting in wingback chair wearing colorful T-shirt with laptop in lap, smiling at camera.

Sep 26, 2022

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Twenty Years Later, I’m Shattering My Silence

An accident that nearly ended my life has opened me up

Jun 3, 2022

Row of journals

Jun 3, 2022

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Unexpected Family Support: How My Son Keeps His Grandparents Safe

Major household repairs can make all the difference

2d ago

Bathroom with an unfinished wall, half a bathtub, and an open window with a pink door directly across.

2d ago

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Those Closest to Us Can Influence Our Ability to Cope with Anxiety

Circumstances and people can help or hinder our path to healing

Oct 8

Squigly yellow lights that are somewhat blurry.

Oct 8

Joy DeSomber

Fashion Week and a Murder Plot in Milan

Only limousine service is available for your criminal endeavors

Oct 3

Milan Duomo at dusk, lampposts in foreground, blue sky behind.

Oct 3

Joy DeSomber

COVID-19 and Me: Like 23 and Me, But Less Fun

When superhero powers fail to activate

Sep 30

Mattress with blue blanket, single pillow, cinder block wall behind.

Sep 30

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Perspective: I Would’ve Put the World Trade Center in the Foreground, in Better Focus

25 years ago, on an innocent summer day

Sep 9

A man in Navy dress white holding the hand of a two year old boy dressed in a sailor outift, walking toward the camera on a grassy area with people sitting nearby, the Twin Towers far in the background, the buildings not in clear focus.

Sep 9

Joy DeSomber

Joy DeSomber

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Single mom of three. Veteran. Cop. Humor, gratitude, trauma, travel, and more, always reinventing myself. https://marriedtoapsychopathickiller.substack.com/

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