~ reluctant celebration ~

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People can be wonderful and draining at the same time. Release can be excruciating and exquisite on the same climb. One can be happily withdrawn and communally melancholic in the same rhyme. We all find ways to smile through the grime, even when the dropped dime is the news of our own birthday party.

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