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I love this, Vanessa! And I'm so glad we were able to do Generation Women together! <3

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Thank you. Just...thank you. In the 6 years I wrote my own stories on my old blog before having to find a new home for them, I received almost nothing but blowback, snickering, this “navel gazing” crap (thanks for sharing that article too--I have also saved that one), and a host of “friends” abandoning ship. Of course, I was surrounded by martial artists and my profession was a glitzy, glamorous corner of the entertainment industry. So discovering this corner of artists?!

Thank you for sharing your life, and talking openly and passionately about the process of doing so. Give me writing like yours every day over so much of the stuff out there.

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That Melissa Febos quote is SO GOOD!! Fire. "We are writing the history that we could not find in any other book" - all the lines punch but this one is just so good. Thank you for sharing! As Van Morrison says in "Caravan" and I try to tell myself everyday: Turn it up! Turn up the stories, turn up the witnessing, turn up the love that can heal these monstrous beauties we carry...

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