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People Behaving Badly

making peace with our own bad behavior

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Lore Wilbert
Jul 31, 2023
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I have never felt entirely comfortable with the quote often attributed to Anne Lamott that goes something like “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” I don’t deny that we own everything that has happened to us or that we should tell our stories or ev…

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