A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go
What we keep of our losses scaffolds who we become.
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"We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss," Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life's necessary losses, "and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected...
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What we keep of our losses scaffolds who we become.
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What we keep of our losses scaffolds who we become.
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