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I miss my friends
We’re not crashing into each other the way it felt as though we were in our youth and I find something is lost.
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Vanessa Friedman

September 2023

Who do you intend to be?
How a person decides exactly which version of their life they want to live
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Vanessa Friedman

March 2023

The Internal Logic of Us
"I'm happy."
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Vanessa Friedman

February 2023

On community, kind of
a confusing mess of knots
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Vanessa Friedman
Undoing the myths we believe about ourselves
"Honey, that's not relaxing. That's pooping."
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Vanessa Friedman
What if I allowed How I Am to be… okay?
A story about pizza sauce, amongst other things
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Vanessa Friedman

January 2023

The Planning and The Doing
Someone once told me the nicest thing you can wish for someone is that they have a boring life
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Vanessa Friedman
Make Me a Diet Coke
Fill the cup to the brim with ice, trust me
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Vanessa Friedman
Writing about writing
Brokeback Mountain, therapy, and other small things I've noticed
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Vanessa Friedman
Pretend this is a blog post
It's 2023 and we're (I'm) bringing back blogging
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Vanessa Friedman

November 2022

Today is my dead dad's birthday
Also, I had emergency surgery yesterday
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Vanessa Friedman

August 2022

My Life Would Be Perfect Right Now
But my dad is still dead
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Vanessa Friedman
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