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Karen Schwartz
Feb 12, 2021
My Husband’s Delirium Brought Us Closer Together
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Gretchen Lee Bourquin
Oct 6, 2020
Reclaiming Purposeful Anger and Finding Forgiveness
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Gretchen Lee Bourquin
Jul 13, 2020
Things Are So Much Harder Than They Have To Be
Snapshot of a mixed-up mind
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Laura Fox
Apr 27, 2020
I’m Uneducated — Can I Call Myself a Writer?
Or am I a total fraud that invalidates writers with…
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Laura Fox
Dec 4, 2019
To the People Who Have Called Me Over-Sensitive
I’m stronger than you will ever know.
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Laura Fox
Nov 25, 2019
What About the Men Who Cause Daddy Issues?
Why are women shamed for having unloving fathers?
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Gretchen Lee Bourquin
Nov 11, 2019
Woman in the Sun
A Sestina
The following poem is a sestina, a poem I wrote nearly 30 years ago in an Advanced…
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Laura Fox
Nov 10, 2019
Life After Relapse
No one told me I would have to leave people behind.
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Gretchen Lee Bourquin
Nov 2, 2019
Revised Guidelines For Brave&Inspired (11/2/19)
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Laura Fox
Oct 28, 2019
I Have Similarities with My Abuser
Will I become them?
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