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Second____ take much better care of myself.There were simple things I could do. I could start with my poor feet. These little two feet carried me each day for miles and miles, steady and flexed, tired and aching from constant daily pounding, bruised scratched and sometimes rubbed red-raw, my weight pressing and pressing them. I decided now that each night in my tent I__ massage them. I would knead them with lotion because they always ached, and at the end of thirty-mile days they burned__nd it would be luxurious__omething I could have done the entire way because I had been carrying sun lotion but had never taken the ten sacred minutes to do for myself.
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Second____ take much better care of myself.There were simple things I could do. I could start with my poor feet. These little two feet carried me each day for miles and miles, steady and flexed, tired and aching from constant daily pounding, bruised scratched and sometimes rubbed red-raw, my weight pressing and pressing them. I decided now that each night in my tent I__ massage them. I would knead them with lotion because they always ached, and at the end of thirty-mile days they burned__nd it would be luxurious__omething I could have done the entire way because I had been carrying sun lotion but had never taken the ten sacred minutes to do for myself.
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