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Welcome to My True Story
Welcome and thank you for visiting my book blog and memoir. The entire book can be accessed via the Contents link. Chapter 1 is linked below. You may wonder why I am blogging my…
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Now – Coming Around Again
shutterstock.com/ipedan “I fly, I crawl, I weep, I laugh, I swim, I grow, I fall, I need, I want, I follow, I break, I sink, I love, I exist” Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin,…
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Road to Medicine
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself” Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 Throughout my…
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Gone
shutterstock.com/halfpoint “The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow” Anaïs Nin, The…
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Mum and Dad
shutterstock.com/normad_soul “Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity” Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 “You live out the confusions until they become clear” Anaïs Nin, The Diary…
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Love Changes Everything
shutterstock.com/jadethaicatwalk “Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life” Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in…
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Of Monsters and Murderers
shutterstock.com/billionphotos “Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love” Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart Sometimes the monsters we meet start as our best friends. They can…
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The Dilemma
shutterstock.com/photoagent “When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with” Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1…
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The Tree of Empathy
shutterstock.com/oleksandrlurchak “Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat” Anaïs Nin “Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute…
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Sexuality
shutterstock.com/alexcherepanov “I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman” Anaïs Nin, Henry and June Fathers often say that they are very protective of their daughters because they are…
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Girls, Girls, Girls
shutterstock.com/eugenepartyzan “I have no fear of your femaleness” Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller “Two women. Strangeness. All the webs of ideas blown away” Anaïs Nin, Ladders…
