Not Everyone Likes Chocolate Cake

I’m an acquired taste…and that’s okay

Julie S. Paschold

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Brownie Sundaes….that not everyone likes….and that’s okay. photo by Julie S. Paschold

Not Everyone Likes Chocolate Cake

I’m not everyone’s cup of tea. People have built walls to keep me out. They have discarded me, disposed of my friendship. It hurts, makes me feel ashamed. I have been a people pleaser, have tried in the past to make everyone like me — to act in ways I thought they would approve just to…

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Julie S. Paschold

Author of poetry book Horizons (Atmosphere Press). Queer artist in Nebraska, parent, twin, bipolar, sensory sensitivity, synesthesia, PTSD, MS in Agronomy