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      <description>Permission to remember wrong. Permission to write it anyway. On gaslighting, the timeline you don't have, what you'd tell your younger self, and the song that makes you the main character.</description>
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      <description>On grief, the kind you bake into yourself like a cake. On 23 years without my dad, a meditation for grieving days, Joan Didion, the galaxy in my throat, and the song that phoenixes you.</description>
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      <title>You Are the Final Girl. You Have Survived.</title>
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