more worn

The town seems less clean and more worn out.

If I started when I was 12, my body would be a lot more worn.

So looking at her Bible, reading what she wrote in the margins, where the pages were more worn or dog-eared.

“But you become invisible if you have mental health problems, like I have. I suffer from severe bipolar disorder. I’ve been getting the help, but I became invisible in this society, because I wasn’t showing up how society wanted me to look. Dirty, bummy, crunchy looking … I got ignored, and I ended up getting more worn in my mental fortitude.”

The house grows emptier and more worn, deaths and diseases are mentioned in passing, and conversations become increasingly nostalgic.