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Digging Out From Our Piles of Lies

Digging Out From Our Piles of Lies

The virtue of becoming your own self-styled truthteller

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Amy L Bernstein
Mar 19, 2024
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Oh, no.

The nighttime “grabbies” were back.

The merciless, repetitive, berating tape loop playing in my head in the dark of night:

Why did you say that?

You should’ve handled it differently!

He’ll think you’re a moron.

You could have come off so much better…

And now you blew it…

And a second loop plays on top of that one:

Stop…

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