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This is wonderful! I am going to buy her books! this: "You know if I was in an actual elevator with someone I’d push the stop button. I’d bring cheese sandwiches and chocolate and wine. I’d say look, there are stories about things that have happened to me that I’ve carried around too long, like dead bodies I couldn’t figure out how to let go of." is a jewel among jewels.

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I loved that, too.

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YES!!! How do I get in that elevator???

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Seeing Ludia Yuknavitch featured here pushed me over the edge to becoming a paid subscriber. I sense a kindred spirit and feel at home. And writing rituals--so important. Lit candles and crushed peanuts on my windowsill every morning invite jays, wrens, titmice, and words. Looking forward to Reading the Waves.

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I'm so grateful for your support, Polly! Thank you.

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This quote really left an impression on me because I relate to it so deeply (even though my lived experience wasn't exactly the same as Lidia's): "I became a writer through the portal of trauma...That cataclysmic event horizon rearranged my DNA forever. The grief also opened up a portal to all my other wounds and traumas, which came rushing for like an ocean."

Thank you, Sari, for this interview. It really moved and inspired me. I started my Substack publication, Human/Mother, nearly a year ago, and it has been a wonderful project that has allowed me to explore grief and trauma--it has become a thing that has rushed out of me like the ocean. Yesterday, I published an essay on the loss of a home, and I invite you and your community to have a read: https://katrinadonhamwrites.substack.com/p/a-loss-is-a-loss-is-a-loss?r=3cnvg1. Thank you!

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love her writing so much

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Me, too!

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Cannot WAIT for this book - the wisdom just oozes out of this interview. Thank you, Lidia!

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There is so much about this I love. Please let me someday get caught in an elevator with Lidia. She clearly understands my kind of party.

This also made me think about my tattoos, and how they each have allowed me to carry something on the outside of me so that I didn't have to grasp to it so tightly on the inside of me. My recent work on my memoir has functioned similarly.

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<3

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What a great interview! Such evocative answers. Thanks for the you both! ❤️

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Lidia's writing is brilliant and this interview lived up to her magic. Thank you!

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Thank you for this interview. Definitely on my reading list. 🙏

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Next time someone asks me for an elevator pitch, this is what I'm going to say. Thank you Lidia, for these realest words, and Sari!

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Love Lidia Yuknavitch. So happy to see her here. Thank you so much. I have to visit her work often to remember what a person can do on the page and how that might apply to what I'm doing. Such an inspiration. Looking forward to Reading the Waves.

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Cannot wait for Reading the Waves to come out!

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I love her and her transformative writing. Grateful for her work. Always.

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