Ask Polly

Ask Polly

'I'm Still Learning How To Live!'

'I am grateful for their forgiveness as I try again and again and again.'

Heather Havrilesky
Nov 26, 2024
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Garden (1985) by Dorothea Tanning

This week I want to focus on gratitude. If you have something — or a bunch of things — you’re grateful for, please send a letter to askpolly@protonmail.com and I’ll publish a new one each day this week.

Dear Polly,

First of all, I'm so grateful to you. Before I had much of a sense of self to rely on I borrowed your guidin…

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