"You can tell yourself anything you want about yourself, even if it’s not true yet, and eventually it will be. Maybe."

Rhea Ramakrishnan is from Baltimore. Her essays and poems have previously been published in swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), Ploughshares, and Hayden's Ferry Review, among others.

"Our Story," by Rhea Ramakrishnan first appeared on the X-R-A-Y website: https://xraylitmag.com/our-story-by-rhea-ramakrishnan/fiction/

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