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We Should Be Wary of the Stories We Tell Ourselves

We Should Be Wary of the Stories We Tell Ourselves

The narrator is not to be trusted

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Crystal Jackson
Dec 29, 2020
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The narrator is not to be trusted

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The story I used to tell myself about my marriage kept me in it for over a decade of my life. I thought I was telling an unconventional love story, but I was really constructing the bars of my own cage. If I could take the truth and spin it to weave a beautiful tale, then I wouldn’t ha…

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