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The Runes: A Deeper Journey

by Kari C Tauring

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Feb 16, 2025 05:50AM

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Eight Things I Wish I'd Known About Polyamory: Before I Tried It and Frakked It Up

by Cunning Minx

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“So it felt significant—generous—for Auntie to sit here and tell me that the way my mother raised me was unfair. It was a permission of sorts to recognize—even among this generation that was so inured to pain—that the way I was brought up was not right. Not how it was supposed to be.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“You’ve interviewed sixty people who are estranged from their parents,” I stammered. “I don’t know if you have studies on it, but, um, in your experience—did the people who estranged themselves, did they feel free afterward?” “No,” Catherine said with certainty. I waited. There was nothing else.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“Four months later, I got my diagnosis. And now that my past was spilling over, exploding, a volcano spewing hot toxic waste all over my present life, it was all I could think about.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“Learning to need a family—to rely on them and give myself to them—was a skill I had to learn in order to date Joey.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“Catherine was right. Estrangement is not freeing. It has not felt joyful. It has not been happy. It has only felt necessary, and even that is something I question all the time: Does this make me selfish? Does it make me cruel? Then I think of the Thao Nguyen lyric, You made a cruel kid. Come look what you did.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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