How A Diary From 96 Years Ago Can Help Us Find Ourselves

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What is normal and how do we define it? We start off in life mimicking much of what we were taught and following the example of those we are surrounded by. If that doesn’t create a reality we are willing to live with how do we define a new one?

I’m driven by a need to silence a critic I have heard since I was born. While I was able to physically distance myself from…