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Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

by Ben Reeves (Goodreads Author)

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

by Joanna Faber

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Book cover for Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen Rubin

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Because it’s so powerful, for many people, eye contact can cause great discomfort. This intensity also perhaps explains why some celebrities resist eye contact. Katy Perry, Tori Spelling, Luke Perry, and Sylvester Stallone are just a few ...more

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Michelle’s Quotes

“On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”
― Wendell Berry, What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

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“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

tags: community, drugs, health, loneliness

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