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People are talking. People are laughing. There's so much color (you've never seen so much color). There are soap bubbles, a hundred little rainbows flying in the air. There's glitter falling all around you. Catch one if you can.

People wear flags. People wear clothes they can't wear on any other day. Someone passes rainbow stickers around. You grab a flag (you've never woven a flag around (what if you hit someone (or if the fabric tangles (or…

There's music and there's so many people and it's too loud, and you'll bring earbuds next year, it's all too much and it's not enough and you want to dance and sing and shout.

People everywhere. Your love, their hand in yours. Your friends, talking and passing glitter around. Strangers who wear your flag. Strangers who don't.

But they're all your people. This one day, you're united, and you're stronger for it.

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My thoughts and feelings on my first pride parade. We had crepes after.

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