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'My Friend Group Dumped Me and Now I Have No One!'
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'My Friend Group Dumped Me and Now I Have No One!'

It's time to stop trying to please people and start being your truest self.

Heather Havrilesky
Nov 30, 2022
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The Chestnut Grey (1924) by Georgia O’Keeffe

This Ask Polly from January of 2021 doesn’t have some of the SHOUTING and weird metaphors of some of my all-time favorites, but I love the first point I make here about how older people who are still living inside their regrets project that story onto younger people, telling them that they only have a few year…

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