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Let Go!
By Jana Long — 2021
Jana Long writes about not clinging to stuff—mental, emotional, physical—plus anything and everything that has outlived its usefulness.
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.4
