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'How Can I Stop Being So Afraid of Changing My Life?'

Once you learn to live in the present you'll stop fearing the future so much.

Heather Havrilesky
Dec 29, 2025
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L’École de la Vanité (1967), Jane Graverol

Hi Polly,

I’m in my late twenties, I have two useless degrees and a corporate job I hate that is making my artistic nature shrivel up and die. I am talking to you because I feel awfully lonely. The feeling is eating me alive. I have never had a real relationship (only a couple failed talking stages) and every t…

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