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'My Former BFF Always Has a New Favorite Friend!'

Everyone invents their own ways of escaping intimacy.

Heather Havrilesky
Aug 26, 2024
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A Fallen Star (1959) by Dorothea Tanning

Hi Polly,

You've helped me so much over the years including your letter to Working Through Despair which helped me get out of a toxic work situation that would have broken me.

Sometimes I think about writing to you and what you'd say and that can really help me with clarifying my thoughts. But what I'm writing about…

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