We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.
You go on with your life, because life goes on,_ says Isabel. __ou see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example._ Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven. __t first you think you can__ live with this,_ says the author, who just turned sixty-five. __t__ just too much. Then life begins to take over. One morning you wake up and you want to eat chocolate. Or walk in the woods. Or open a bottle of wine. You get back up on your feet._ __hen you can, right?_ __ou have no choice!_ Isabel insists. __ou cannot let the bullies keep you on the floor! I have been on my knees a thousand times, and I always get up.
When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
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You go on with your life, because life goes on,_ says Isabel. __ou see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example._ Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven. __t first you think you can__ live with this,_ says the author, who just turned sixty-five. __t__ just too much. Then life begins to take over. One morning you wake up and you want to eat chocolate. Or walk in the woods. Or open a bottle of wine. You get back up on your feet._ __hen you can, right?_ __ou have no choice!_ Isabel insists. __ou cannot let the bullies keep you on the floor! I have been on my knees a thousand times, and I always get up.
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