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Victoria Olsen's avatar

Beautifully written, following an associative emotional line through both personal experience and research. Thank you for sharing it. I wish you all the good lucks—

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Erica Stern's avatar

Thank you so much!

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Rachel Somerstein's avatar

Love this excerpt and really can't recommend the book enough!

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Erica Stern's avatar

Thank you 💙

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Nancy Jainchill's avatar

Powerful. I hope all continues to be better.

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Erica Stern's avatar

Thank you!

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Devon Nako's avatar

Such a moving, painful snippet- I'm looking forward to reading the rest and afraid of the feelings it will stir up. The "magical thinking" you mentioned echoes the desperate/secretive bargaining that Joan Didion wrote about in her memoir.

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