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“When I looked in the mirror today, I saw a stranger. The woman staring back at me as unblinkingly confident. She had found her centre. Her eyes were calm and did not brim over with the saltiness of the soul that often anymore. She was at peace. I was at peace.”

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More Things in Heaven and Earth

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