This isn__ how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
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Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
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