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In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.
Cheryl Strayed
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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
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He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
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What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
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He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.
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What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
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It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.
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