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First Draft - Maggie Smith

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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The Mystery of Life

I actually worked for a while in educational publishing and so part of my job for a while was writing the answers at the back of the book. I think even kind of tying back to the epigraph, people will always be in part a mystery to us we don't actually have access to the interior of anyone else they can only ever know themselves and speak for ourselves. One of the things that I can do for myself at least is to not be a mystery to myself, right to get to know myself well enough to have enough self awareness that I can make the best choices for me for my kids.

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