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Wendy Carr's avatar

Happy Birthday - now a few days late. This beautiful expression of the bittersweet reality you’re walking in made me wish we were friends in real life so I could just come hang out for a couple of hours. I can tell from this that you are the kind of human I want to be, and want to surround myself with. Two things you express here that i’m also leaning into - recently committed to, even thought I know there will be fallout - are “embracing my mediocrity” (an admonition from Cheryl Strayed at a writers conference I attended last weekend) and focusing my choices and investments of time on LOVE. Not guilt, not shame, not duty…LOVE. Thank you.

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Stefanie Mullen's avatar

Happy Birthday Lisa. Giving you a giant hug from far away. I'm sorry for the sadness and grateful for your writing.

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