Last week’s “speech heard ’round the world” put me in mind of an insightful author’s 2012 book. The Catholic Girl’s Survival Guide for the Single Years, by Emily Stimpson (now Emily Stimpson Chapman), languished on my bookshelf for quite some time. I can’t remember who gave it to me, and while I’m sure they meant well, it was a bit demoralizing. Who wants a reminder of their loneliness, all in bright pink? I hid it on my shelf, and if my procrastinating tendencies hadn’t come to the rescue, it would’ve ended up at a Goodwill.
Thank goodness it didn’t, though.
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