This blog is about a teenager named Poppy who lives in a small town in Oklahoma called Pink, and her crazy life

Hey! My name is Poppy and I am 17 years old. I live in Pink, Oklahoma with my older brother, Sage, and my little sister, Ivy. I have had a pretty normal childhood I guess but my story does not really start until I hit 2nd grade.

Why should you keep reading?

• Because you’ll get a new friend… me!
• Because you will learn so really good advice about how to handle some situations as a teen.
• And because having someone else being able to overcome something might help you get over something in your own life

I plan to finally get my story out there and to make sure that I can make a difference with my life and to help others.

To help you get started, here are a few more things for you to know…

• I am blogging publicly because I feel like I have kept to many journals of my thoughts and they need to get out
• I will write about my own experiences, things that I have read, and just rantings of a crazy 17 year old.
• I really hope to connect with someone who truly understands how I feel… I want to find someone who got through something hard and is using that for good.
• If my blog is successful throughout the next year, I hope to have some closer myself and maybe turn this into an ask Poppy column

I want to say thank you if you have made it this far already and I really just hope

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

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