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"If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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the loneliest place on earth (opens the original)
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when god spoke (opens the original)
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Something We Can Walk Through (opens the original)
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All of This From a Hibiscus (opens the original)
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How to Write After a Summer Like This (opens the original)
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I’ve started this post a dozen times in my head, but it’s never made it onto the screen, not until now, because how do I tell the story of the last half of a summer that felt like a punch to the gut but somehow also included some of the best and most monumental days of my life? How to capture the breathtaking sobs that can wrack a body but are followed so closely by grins that stretch the cheeks, laughs that ache? A sunset over two ponds, one the placid waters of loss, the other marking the begi
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