Valerie Patrick

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How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir

by Molly Jong-Fast

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Is This a Cry for Help?

by Emily R. Austin (Goodreads Author)

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Fire Force Omnibus 1 (Vol. 1-3)

by Atsushi Ohkubo

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Book cover for Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

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Neuroscientists have found that our brains release feel-good chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin when we partake in transcendent bonding rituals, like group chanting and singing.

me at the bar singing Unwritten with a bunch of strangers

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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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