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A Product of My Surroundings

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Emily Baker
Aug 04, 2024
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a particular ex lately. The last moments we spent together were up here in Door County. Moments that I had mistaken for good at the time but upon second glance were quite terrible (funny how that works).

Now, initially, when I described the goal for this blog, I committed to telling some of the stories that led me to the point I’m in now in life. I am going to backtrack on that slightly. That is to say, I’m chickening out a little bit on being that vulnerable. I’m not going to put my darkest moments of learning out there for everyone on the internet to see. I will put them out there for everyone on the internet who wants to pay me to see them, however.

See what I did there? Now my exes will have to pay me to read about themselves.

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