24 Lessons: To All the Girls I’ve Been Before

An open letter to young women on growing up.

Hannah Davies
5 min readJun 23, 2023

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Marseilles, 2023. (Image courtesy of author)

Dearest 18,

  1. Sometimes you will act like a dick. Sometimes other people will too. Not just at 18, though especially at 18. You are young and naive and insulated and dickishness is inevitable; you are mostly blind to how much you hurt eachother. Repair what you can, remorse what you…

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