Leigh McLeroy | Wednesday Words & More

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The Slow Work...

The Slow Work...

of undoing and making new

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It's a long, slow work, this destruction of the woman I am not.

That woman is impervious and resilient. She can withstand almost any blow and remain upright and smiling. She sheds her tears for others, not herself.

She is a fast healer. She ignores her wounds and moves on to the next thing that needs to be done. (Doing that thing, of course, with both eas…

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