You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
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