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What can the people on this island create?… A few kinds of vegetables, cars that constantly break down, heavy, bulky stoves,...

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 What can the people on this island create?… A few kinds of vegetables, cars that constantly break down, heavy, bulky stoves,...

Nov 18,2023

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A problem isn’t finished just because you’ve found the right answer.

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 A problem isn’t finished just because you’ve found the right answer.

Mar 10,2023

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Maybe there’s a place out there where people whose hearts aren’t empty can go on living.

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 Maybe there’s a place out there where people whose hearts aren’t empty can go on living.

Jan 24,2023

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I needed this eternal truth… I needed the sense that this invisible world was somehow propping up the visible one, that

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 I needed this eternal truth… I needed the sense that this invisible world was somehow propping up the visible one, that

Dec 28,2022

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No matter how careful we are, we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives. Hair, sweat, fingernails,...

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 No matter how careful we are, we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives. Hair, sweat, fingernails,...

Dec 02,2022

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When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing,

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 When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing,

Feb 25,2022

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Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.

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 Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.

Dec 23,2021

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but he looked away [from my hands], as though he had seen into the most vulnerable part of my body.

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 but he looked away [from my hands], as though he had seen into the most vulnerable part of my body.

Apr 18,2021

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