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I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.

Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
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The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.
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The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
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So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones.
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