I went back to study at an age when everyone expected me to be settled
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Whatever happens next, this moment of honesty already changed something. You cannot unsee a truth once you have said it out loud.
I went through something painfully similar last year. It does get lighter, not all at once, but in small unglamorous steps. Hang on to the tiny good moments.
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