I appreciate the invite. I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Ray Blanco. I’m a soon to be self published author and hip hop producer. I write in philosophy and pain. I guess there’s no point in hiding the fact that I suffer from schizophrenia and severe fragmentation… but it doesn’t define me… it just tunes me into a higher frequency so I can achieve the proper depth of my writing to translate the darkness in my mind into words. I look forward to meeting everybody.

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