Beautiful, Daring, Stupid

Beautiful, Daring, Stupid

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Not Today

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Meg Oolders
Apr 13, 2023
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You wake up in the morning and the first thing you want to do, before you move a muscle, before you rub the sleep from your eyes, before you even take a breath, the first and only thing you want to do … is cry.

And you do. But it’s not a good cry. It doesn’t feel good. It feels cowardly and shameful. It feels wrong an…

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