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|| Imperfect Chemistry ||  CH 20
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
–Blaise Pascal
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“Wabi-sabi is a Japanese principle that embodies the idea of transience and imperfection. Like the life cycle. We are born, we get old and we eventually die. Objects are the same, they get old and weathered, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s all a part of the cycle of nature. Wabi-sabi is about appreciating the beauty in our naturally imperfect world.”
[ Jensen Walker ]

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His lips are swollen and his pupils are dilated and he’s looking at me like he’s nowhere near finished sampling my lips. I can feel his body’s natural response against my thigh and my body is screaming to let go and follow impulses. But I’ve never been ruled by my body. Ever. And I’m not entirely sure what those impulses are, but I am sure that I need to retreat and analyze and contemplate. [ Lucy London ]

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How little can be done under the spirit of fear.
–Florence Nightingale
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|| Notes || Imperfect Chemistry || CH9, PG 1,124
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Words can be sweetly encouraging or downright dirty, but
they are almost always a powerful aphrodisiac. –Dr. Ruth
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But
what's
that
aroma...?

Is this an...
old Japanese
garden?

An old-style
home, hedges, a
garden lantern,
a shishi-odoshi
bamboo tube...

No.

The scale
here is
much
smaller.

More of
an inner
courtyard...

Small-
scale,
but pure
nostalgia.

A den
of revived
dreams.
[ Shizuku Kanzaki ]

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➳ Book 5:  Imperfect Chemistry by Mary Frame
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This is a new sensation for me. Not the being curious part—I
always want to know everything about everything—but I
tend to avoid social contact with anyone unless absolutely
necessary and therefore make only polite overtures to
ensure my mostly solitary existence. But now, I find myself
genuinely interested. [ Lucy London ]
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I can relate. ♡

I was terrified. I couldn't seem to get away from him, and that is the way that works, that is the way you successfully sexually harass somebody; is by creating a fear in them that they are immobilized and paralyzed. When it was over it definitely damaged my heart...

to go to a therapist, and get antidepressants enough to at least get myself out of bed. To jolt myself out. And I started therapy and I didn't give up.

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Back
when I was
an assistant
director, a bottle
from your father
changed my life.

A single
encounter
can ruin a
person's
life...

But it can
also make
it far, far
richer.

That encounter
can be with a
person, a book,
a bottle of
wine...

And a happy
encounter's just
as happy for
the person who
gave it to you.
[ Mr. Kurokawa ]

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|| Notes || Sheryl Crow || 25JAN2022 |
| Part 1 @ 05:17 |
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You know when you, when you are going through puberty and you liked a girl or a boy, you made them a mixed tape. I mean the songs were literally the sound track to your evolution.
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|| Notes || Ten First Dates || 25JAN2022 ||
PG 1,050 of 2583 (40%)
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➳ Book 4:  Love Under Construction by M.C. Cerny
▪︎ Start:  20JAN2022
▪︎ Finish:  25JAN2022
➦ Overall rated:  ★★★★☆
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He was safe, but he was a tempest of emotional
scars and storms. I wanted to ride the rough
waves with him until we drifted out to
nothingness and back again.
Hunter and me.
Me and Hunter.
Inconceivable and yet inevitable. No matter how
many times I said to myself, the reality sounded
both wrong and right. All these years of playful
banter and history finally culminated in this…
[ Taylor Lane ]
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|| Notes || Ten First Dates || 20JAN2022 |
| PG 805 of 2583 || 31% |
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➳ Book 3:  Loved You Once by Claudia Y. Burgoa
▪︎ Start:  11JAN2022
▪︎ Finish:  20JAN2022
➦ Overall rated:  ★★★☆☆
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|| Marcus Garvey and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement | CH 1 |
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➤ ...but racial equality remained elusive. Share cropping was a large part of the problem. In theory, share cropping was a fair arrangement. Black people worked white owned land in exchange for an equitable share of the harvest, but in practice it kept African Americans in grinding poverty through perpetual debt...
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|| Marcus Garvey and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement | CH 1 |
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➤ ...but Garveyism did last long. Its core tenants echoed through the years, influencing the way African Americans approached the struggle for freedom rights long after its namesake was gone. A compelling force in African American history, "Garveyism" is an incredible prism through which to view the deep roots of the civil rights movement.
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Notes || Loved You Once || 16JAN2022 |
| CH 16, PG 635 || 24% |
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I trust fate. I’m in charge of a part of my life, but
there are things I can’t change. I believe in destiny
and that there are things, like love and health, that
you don’t have much say in.  That’s, yet, another one
of the mottos I live by: you have to have faith while
doing your best to live. [ Blaire ]
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|| "Hand in My Pocket" ||
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I'm broke but I'm happy,
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah

I'm high but I'm grounded,
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful, baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine
'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five...
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✿♬ﾟ+.(｡◡‿◡)♪.+ﾟ♬✿

|| Alanis Morissette || 14JAN2022 | 23%
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...And that You Oughta Know is also a beautiful revenge fantasy, and I think it was misperceived in moments as being the revenge song as such, but it was really revenge fantasy, and I think it's really important when we're moving through any anger or resentment to have whatever revenge fantasies...
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