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Julia McGhee. 23 Years Old. Books. Pictures. Haikus. Et cetera.

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Fielding

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Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan

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“You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.”

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned," by Lena Dunham

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Jake & George

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Arbor

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This is my Dad

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Pacific Palisades, California

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This City is Ours

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New York City Botanical Gardens

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Jake

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The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survivals were punishingly slim, for the world was naught but a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

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The Lake

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Out for a Walk

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Dad

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Beaver Pong, Swanzey, New Hampshire

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Swanzey Pond