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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Years
Considered
Seemed
Cry
Progress
Year
Times
Three
Roughly
Used
Breakfast

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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
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