You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.
– Anne Lamott
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- … it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you. – Zen Cho
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