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Observations: on writing nonfiction again
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Observations: on writing nonfiction again

I wrote about my life in 2009. It was therapeutic, and I felt compelled to share my story with audiences because this felt like a natural conclusion to the material. What I didn't realize is that ...

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Jan 19, 2023
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I had only begun to write about my journey. And in many ways, I had yet to fully understand it.

What I wrote about then, specifically, was what I had decided amounted to poor decision-making skills as…

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