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"Struggling to get through this. Keep going? Someone please tell me it's worth it." — Sep 25, 2024 10:50AM
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"Honestly, I'm a little shaken by this book. I forget who recommended to me, but I started it blind. Spent all day yesterday thinking about aging as a woman, menopause, and how unfair it feels that just as you finally reach your groove as a woman, your body just betrays you with all this change. To then open a book and read another's musings as if from your own stream of conscious brain is the definition of kismet." — Jul 11, 2024 09:08PM
"Honestly, I'm a little shaken by this book. I forget who recommended to me, but I started it blind. Spent all day yesterday thinking about aging as a woman, menopause, and how unfair it feels that just as you finally reach your groove as a woman, your body just betrays you with all this change. To then open a book and read another's musings as if from your own stream of conscious brain is the definition of kismet." — Jul 11, 2024 09:08PM
something sweet and old-fashioned and lost in time. But, like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you aren’t anticipating. That long stretch of farmhouses turns into a barren landscape of
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