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Julie Herringa

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Julie is Currently Reading

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Half His Age

by Jennette McCurdy

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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19

by Edna Bonhomme

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Julie’s Quotes

“For as long as I could remember, I had been apologizing for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead.”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl

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“Because—as I’d discovered—loneliness is not a function of company, but rather it is a consequence: an unpleasant symptom of a needy state of mind that desperately seeks to extract happiness from a source outside itself.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

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“It was sobering to think of how much of me I had squandered, in vain pursuit of being accepted, instead of putting that same energy into living a life that was worth something.”
― Paul Wilson, BAD KARMA: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell

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“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

tags: faith, friendship, perseverance

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