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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
Cheryl Strayed
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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
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You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
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Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.
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I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.
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