"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
—Albert Camus
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I'll tell you what freedom felt like.
The air was the same. The ground felt no different. The people around me were just as unwelcoming. The buildings were no larger. But everything was changed, different, and for the first time, I understood what rebellion truly was. It wasn't twelve-year-old me hurling Cosimo's phone into the pool and receiving a smack in the face. It wasn't fourteen-year-old me talking back to my father and being told that was a death sentence. It wasn't nineteen-year-old me experimenting with m**********n and judging myself for it. It wasn't my first kiss as an act of defiance and having my fling thrown into
