I Thought I’d Die Young

Vivian McInerny
3 min readNov 3, 2021

Spoiler alert: I didn’t

Image by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash

I am here! Fortunately, I arrived at old age with only a few hitches along the way. From what I’ve seen so far, it looks similar to young age but may most resemble adolescence.

In childhood, parents and teachers told me what to do and pretty much how to think. As an adult, I was too slammed by career and kids to find time to think. But as a teen I rebelled…

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Vivian McInerny

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.