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'My Family Is in Crisis and My Boyfriend Disappeared!'

'My Family Is in Crisis and My Boyfriend Disappeared!'

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Heather Havrilesky
Oct 16, 2023
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A Quiet Place (1950) by Helen Lundeberg

Dear Polly,

I love your writing, and for years it has guided me through relationship dramas and self-doubt around my art, and even though I've never been married, I devoured Foreverland and adored your honesty, the struggle, the joy, the spikiness, the spark, the work. The work is something I'm very interested in, e…

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