I cry all the time.
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View all 193 →Last week. I had quite a bad anxiety attack.
Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
Yesterday. Everything seemed impossible.
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Not being born a boy.
Someone else to write my books.
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Swimming in the North Sea at midnight, surrounded by phosphorescence.
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