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'I Moved Home and It's Scary!'

Sometimes it pays not to overthink it.

Heather Havrilesky
Dec 13, 2021
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Ladder to the Moon (1958) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly,

I just took the biggest of leaps and landed in Atlanta, Georgia. This move had a lot of motivations - love, family, pandemic-and-egg-freezing-induced prioritization shuffle - but I'm thrilled to be here and settling in with my boyfriend of a year. Ultimately, I had every intuition of my previous ch…

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