CHAPTER 7

LETTER 029

NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DEEP WATER

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Not every friendship is meant to hold your whole weight. Some are just for laughing until eleven.

Dear me,I have been thinking about the word toxic all week.Rolling it around like a wine I can't decide if I like.We throw that word at everything now, don't we?Toxic this.Toxic that.The word of the decade.And I've been throwing it too — generously, like confetti...…

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