Four years later, I do remember him, but he’s fading fast. He’s getting hazier and hazier in my mind, and soon I won’t be able to recall anything at all about him. This forgetting disturbs me—the good-bye implied by hello, the inevitable
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“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.”
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“You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”
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“do not apologize for owning every piece of you they could not take, break, and claim as theirs.”
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