I had the second storytelling workshop class two nights ago. I told the story of my polyp (see last week’s installment). I knew I had a ten-minute time limit (more or less). I had cut out the aftermath of the story from the first week’s telling and focused on the situation (facing surgery to remove [...]
None of us can help he things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until, at last, everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.
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