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Listening to a song on repeat for a week and really taking the lyrics to heart and having a life epiphany because of them but not doing anything with it because it’s easy to fantasize change but not easy to live it.

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Beautiful. I wish I could have heard you read it aloud like a newscaster reading a press release.

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Might have said a very big and very genuine "oof" reading this line: "maybe one of the meanings of home is forgiving things that you shouldn’t actually be able to forgive" ❤️ 💔

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I have no words to describe how much your words mean to me! I don't know you, and you don't know me, but you manage every week to reach down my throat to my heart and squeeze it real good. Thank you so so much.

Sincerely,

a new and now forever subscriber

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I mean, pizza does make things better.

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You forgot this one;

Not going to the office even though you no longer have a valid reason to stay away, just that you really don't want to go

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I love that you used Landscape with the Fall of Icarus here. Dead on for how I'm feeling currently

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Perfection! Really.

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"Looking at old photos of yourself and not understanding how you could have felt so ugly when you were so obviously beautiful and then not applying this lesson to the present at all."

ughhhhhh. so real.

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The clothes chair is too real. It is also my work chair so the clothes get moved every day to my bed....and then moved back to the chair when I am finished working...it is a vicious cycle

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This is a perfect thing for me to read on my birthday. Thank you.

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This! This is so beyond perfect that it almost made me cry and laugh and nod and ultimately your article is the reason I just signed up for a subscription for a year. So, thank you!

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