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Don’t Look Away

How to be a good friend when trouble comes

Victoria Ponte
Nov 4 · 3 min read

It is our natural tendency to avert our gaze when we see something troubling or gruesome like a car accident on the road. Unfortunately, we may do the same thing when people we love experience a difficulty in life that causes us pain when we look too closely at it. With this behavior, we make the difficulty about our problem in dealing with it instead of keeping…

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Victoria Ponte

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Young stroke survivor, mother, wife, daughter, sister, champion equestrian, tambourine player, storyteller, honest and real https://www.victoriaponte.com🐎

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