Everything is Personal

Everything is Personal

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Everything is Personal
I am exactly the same

I am exactly the same

And I care less.

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Laurie Stone
Sep 23, 2024
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In my fifties, I stopped wondering why people do what they do. People don’t know why they do what they do, and the people who admit this and skip over the subject of human motive appeal to me. You find your thoughts moving to light floating on a wall, reflecting the fronds of a palm swaying in barely perceptible currents of air.

In my twenties, I was see…

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