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'I'm So Far Behind!'

Smash your clocks and breathe.

Heather Havrilesky
Jan 03, 2023
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Tidelands (1987) by Helen Lundeberg

Dear Polly,

First off, I love you. Your column has been the closest thing to successful therapy I had in the last few years and the source of most of my positive self-image interventions. Calling me out for things I hadn’t even realized needed calling out. In some ways my letter fits the theme of many of your latest pub…

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