Practicing

Practicing

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Lynn Steger Strong
Jan 05, 2025
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I tried to be cool for a few days last week. It didn’t work. I tried to be less eager to answer emails. To use the word “so” less often, send fewer heart emojis to people who sent me notes. I was having a sort of meltdown about the fact of persona, how books and hype and all that is about the books but it’s also about this strange miasmic mist of percep…

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