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Essays on identity, desire, motherhood, relationships, and what happens when a life you’ve been performing no longer fits.
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A Handy Roadmap for Hard Things (opens the original)
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I’m on a WhatsApp chain with five of my best girlfriends. The friend with the driest wit warned us years ago that once we reached our 40s, people would start dying off. We laughed. We told her to stop being so macabre. And then we watched her prophecy come true.<source typ
There's No Appropriate Way to Change Your Life (opens the original)
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I’ve rewritten the caption for this thing four times, which is its own kind of proof.This week’s voice memo is about the fact that there’s no appropriate way to deliver big news. This one’s for paid subscribers. Upgrade if you want in. Read more
Tell Me Your Life Purpose & I'll Tell You Mine (opens the original)
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One of my best friends is an Evolutionary Astrologer. (Lucky, I know.)Recently I was at dinner with this friend, and she was illuminating for me my life purpose based on my astrology. Get this:My purpose is to tell the truth. And not just any truth, but the Scorpionic truth. If you’re unfamiliar, what this means is that my area of expertise is: <a href="https://brookelyons.substack.com/p/turns-out-im-gayer-than-i-thought?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=rea
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