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How to Stay Young Forever

Stop worshipping in the house of shame and embrace the religion of big mistakes.

Heather Havrilesky
Apr 11, 2021
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Minervas (1947) by Clarence Holbrook Carter

Hello Polly.

I'm turning 34 in a few weeks. I keep having thoughts about how I missed being young. I'll be doing something and think about how I missed my chance to be desirable or free.  

Some of this is easy to explain to myself. My sibling died suddenly when I was 20, and I spent a lot of my twenties taking ca…

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