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What My Great-Grandmother Survived, and Why I Can't Let It Go
Doris, my great-grandmother, smiling on a beach beside her husband, in the last photo of them together before World War II tore them apart for nearly a decade. This is my great-grandmother Doris. Smiling on a beach beside her husband, just before the war. What they didn't know: it would be the last photo of them smiling together. Not long after, he was sent to war. Declared missing. Presumed dead. For nearly a decade , years after the war had actually ended, she heard nothing
Sep 242 min read


I burned out three times before I asked the right question.
I quit my corporate job after almost ten years, completely exhausted. I remember a scene at 2 am in the morning, I was supposed to log in on a telco (this is 2013/early 2014) and I have a 4 digit pin in front of me which I cannot enter. It doesn't work. I think it's the PIN but in fact the PIN is perfect. I am just out of my mind tired and do not manage to enter the PIN correctly. I sat in front of my blackberry crying. Feeling like the biggest loser on the planet. Two years
Sep 103 min read
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