JW
Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.
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I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
I wouldn’t change anything. When I was 29, my first husband died, so I learned a new way of thinking about life, which is: there are many things that you can’t control.
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