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“For so many years, I lived my life in a defensive stance, putting up a fight when the only thing I was fighting was my own suffering and the fear that someone would find their way through the armour, to the very tender soul I always was, and destroy me all over again.”

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Book:Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

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