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Turns Out Vulnerability Makes You Likeable (opens the original)
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I have never once truly written the true version of anything. Annie Ernaux has built a whole career off doing so.I read ‘Happening’ in one sitting, while drinking a cup of coffee, or should I say while the coffee was getting cold, because I was so enamored with how she put words together that I could not even take a break to sip on my cup. Ernaux wrote about her abortion as if she was describing a walk at the park. There was no beautiful prose nor metaphors just neutrality. Total transparency wi
Don't suffer longer than necessary, wash your hair (opens the original)
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Dear reader, Wash your hair before ticking every item off your checklist.Choose your favorite mug on a regular Tuesday morning. Light the expensive candle. Wear the perfume. Use the notebook that’s too pretty to write in. Put on the outfit you’ve been saving for a special occasion and wear it to buy groceries on a random Wednesday. I wore this Issey Miyake outfit to get milk:Don’t postpone yourself.Today has been one of those strangely ordinary yet beautiful days that remind me how much life hap
Years do odd things to Identity (opens the original)
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I am sitting in the park, stretched out on the grass, listening to the excited chorus of children queuing for ice cream. Last night, I met my younger self in a dream. I wonder if she recognized me. I wonder if she realized I was her. The person she thought she would become.<source type="image/w
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