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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.

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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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