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Confronting Who You Were Last Night and Many Years Ago

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Angela Cummings
May 21, 2023
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In the process of trying to de-clutter my home, I found a Rubbermaid bin full of my childhood and young adult journals. Notebooks full of nightly confessionals, which started when I was ten and continued on fairly regularly until about the age of 23 or so. As a 50th birthday gift to myself, I decided to reread them.

Shortly after that, I decided to bur…

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