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Francie's avatar

I turn 60 this year and the list of things I no longer am is long. But so is the list of things I am now that I wasn’t at 20, 30, 40, even 50. And to that list I will add all the things I will be, one of which is just witchy enough to spark concern in small children but not so much so as to scare them off.

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Madeleine Shaw's avatar

This: "I subverted a perceived attack into a compliment, and it occurred to me, however briefly, that I cannot fail at being who I am, or being where I am. That this as much as anything else is the point of being a human: how we change into unrecognizable things, our multitudes, our complexities, our capacity to be so many different things." I cannot overstate what a profound impact you and your messy, vulnerable, kaleidoscopic perspective on life and the everything that is sobriety have had for me. Thanks from the bottom of my heart and please keep it coming.

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