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'I'm Unlucky in Love and It's Making Me Feel Hopeless'

Nothing is luckier than finally learning how to stand up for who you are and what you love.

Heather Havrilesky
Oct 04, 2021
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Two Yellow Leaves (1928) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly, 

I have had a few years of very bad luck in love, and it is starting to make me feel hopeless.

I'm a 35-year-old writer who has achieved success in a lot of areas of life — I have a great job, great apartment, great friendships. But love keeps evading me, time and time again, always in new and shocki…

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