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'I'm a Baby Machete! Should I Confront My Butter Knife Parents?'

'I'm a Baby Machete! Should I Confront My Butter Knife Parents?'

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Heather Havrilesky
Oct 26, 2023
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Ambiguity (1959) by Helen Lundeberg

Dear Polly,

I love your column so much and have been reading it forever and thinking about writing to you for a while but felt I really really had to write to you after your recent column “What if I’m a Machete?”

The past year of my life has been possibly the hardest, most frustrating, full-of-tears, lonely, breaking-dow…

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