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How to Hold Your Breath for 10 Years

How to Hold Your Breath for 10 Years

Live small and have a backup plan — or chase your dreams

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Crystal Jackson
Sep 09, 2020
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Live small and have a backup plan — or chase your dreams

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By the time I left high school, I had already lowered my expectations. The life I wanted was big, but it had been thoroughly impressed upon me that the life I would get would be small. Every adult and most of my peers used words like “backup plan” and “stabi…

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