Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
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On Monday in therapy.
I have wet eyes sometimes, but I cried all my tears in my youth.
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View profile →My younger self. I told myself so often that I was not good enough, that I was not smart enough, that I was not interesting enough, that I was boring and ugly. I wasn’t kind to my body, and I did and said things to myself that I would never do or say to a friend.
J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
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As someone who had a laugh.
I can’t say no. I am a people-pleaser, and it means that I burn myself out because I take on too much.
I don’t like it when people manipulate your words, which sometimes happens in the tabloids.
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