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Somebody help, just how are using this site??

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A black girl will be spending years in jail because she had a mental health crisis. PLEASE READ

Meet Saraya: she was experiencing a mental health crisis. Police came and tackled her. She is 15.

Saraya Rees is a 15 year old biracial girl from Coos County, Oregon. After being abruptly instructed to stop taking her antidepressants by a local pediatrician, Saraya went into psychosis. In her manic state, Saraya poured a small amount of gasoline on the floor. Her parents called Coos Health & Wellness in hope that that would send mental health advisors, Coos Health & Wellness sent the police. While still in psychosis, the officers arrested her, questioned her without her family or lawyers present, charged with attempted murder and assault, and sent her to juvenile prison for 11 years.

ELEVEN.YEARS.

This is not justice.

This is inhumane.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

1. Call these people and demand that she be let go to the custody in her parents.

Please call Governor Kate Brown and Senator Jeff Merkely.⁠

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📞Governor Kate Brown: (503) 378-4582⁠

📞Senator Jeff Merkley: (503) 326-3386⁠

2. Sign the petition! 

http://chng.it/dPR59dnMzq

Please DO NOT donate to CHANGE.ORG, instead donate to Saraya’s gofundme. 

3. Follow @justice4saraya on instagram. You can find info on where to send her encouragement cards and get updated on progress.

4. SEND CARDS TO THE FOLLOWING (please also note card sending rules)

OAK CREEK CORRECTIONAL FACIILITY 

C/O SARAYA REES

4400 LOCHNER ROAD SE 

ALBANY, OR 97332

EDIT: PLEASE CONSIDER THESE RULES WHEN SENDING HER CARDS! The family has asked for the following when sending cards: 

-No vulgar language or cursing (she’s a child, afterall) 

-No stickers

-No metal 

- Do not use return address stickers

-No Cash

Using these things could mean Saraya doesn’t get your card. If you want to donate to the family during this very hard time, please use the GOFUND ME.

 https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice4saraya

You can also send her gifts for when she gets out to a PO BOX: 

SARAYA’S PO BOX

PO BOX 211

MYRTLE POINT, OR 97458

MENTAL ILLNESS IS NOT A CRIME. LET’S FREE OUR GIRL SARAYA!!!

Saraya’s website: https://www.justice4saraya.com/

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Aesthetic during autumn

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L'ala nera o Il tocco dell'angelo by Roberto Ferri

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can we talk about how fucking exhausting it is constantly trying to distract yourself from your own mind? not being able to have any real time to relax yourself because you’re so terrified of your own head is so mentally and physically draining and if it’s something you’re going through i’m so sorry and i love you. this is a very real and common side effect of depression/anxiety/other mental health issues and more people need to talk about it.

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The smell of rain , half lit cigarettes, old books and quiet murders.

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we don't read and write poetry because it's cute. we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. and the human race is filled with passion. and medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for

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personal aesthetic

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aesthetic:

ancient universities, dark or dead flowers, aging books, handwritten letters, poetry, melancholy piano or cello, sweaters, coffee, old libraries, Augustine prayers, holding hands, walking by the water on a gloomy day while the wind blows through your hair, studying by lamplight, lighting candles, getting lost in the woods (figuratively), instrumental playlists, tea cups, plants that can thrive without lots of sunlight, rainy days, a leather bound Bible that’s falling apart, reading Shakespeare for pleasure, learning Greek or Latin, laying on the ground in the sun and staring at the sky, coffeehouse and book store dates, sincere and passionate love, believing vulnerability is strength, skipping small talk, being kind because ‘you never meet a mere mortal,’ caffeine addiction, feeling everything, an awareness of the supernatural, walking wistfully through long dark halls, an unassuming but enduring faith in something bigger, book shelves and sculptures and paintings, reading out loud while your lover lays their head in your lap, star gazing, leather analog watches, dramatic expressions of love and feelings, preferring intimate one-on-ones over coffee to big and loud parties, a fine glass of wine, quoting those long dead, having a thing for intellectuals and Europeans, a subtle wanderlust under being content at home with a book and a cup of tea, longing to wander Scottish castles and moors, wishing you had an accent, the haunting sound of monks singing in cathedrals, knowing you’d do anything to let your loved ones know you love them and just how deeply you do

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classics are like: you went so extremely hard with the misogyny that it turned into homoeroticism

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I told my mom that I’ve read too many love stories to settle for a love that couldn’t have come from a book. I then said, I know love isn’t really like that but-

She cut me off and said, no, true love really is like that. When you find your forever person, love is like the kind you read about in books.

So I’m going to keep waiting for my forever person.

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i’ll miss europe this summer.

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the me that buys books and the me that reads them, are two different people.