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Letter To My Younger Self Series

Letter to My Younger Self #8: "Despite the crashes, we’ll always come back up."
Binnie Klein tells the nascent childhood poet she once was all about the songwriter she has just become, in her 70s.
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Binnie Klein
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Letter to My Younger Self #7: Life Won’t Wait, but Writing Will
Grace Loh Prasad takes stock of the many life events and factors that made publishing her memoir take more than 20 years.
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Grace Loh Prasad
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Letter To My Younger Self # 6: “Don’t take things personally. And meditate!”
After emerging from a difficult year that reminds her of an earlier hard time, 61-year-old musician Ann Klein gives her 7-year-old self a pep talk.
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Ann Klein
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Letter To My Younger Self #5: Trust Your Heart. And Tinder
At 55, Anna Graham Hunter assures the 47-year-old, newly divorced version of herself that there's more and better sex coming her way than she might ever…
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Anna Graham Hunter
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Letter to My Younger Self #4: Hungry Like the Wolf
Author Helene Stapinski encourages her college-age self not to give up on her dreams of becoming a writer.
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Helene Stapinski
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Letter to My Younger Self #3: About What Happened in Chinatown
Lani V. Cox addresses her 16-year-old self, a girl who underwent plastic surgery at her mother's urging and emerged determined to never let others…
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Lani
35
Letter To My Younger Self #2: You Are Here
Sara Eckel writes to the 25-year-old she once was, just starting out as a writer in New York City in the 90s.
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Sara Eckel
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Letter to My Younger Self #1: Batman, Robin, and Me.
Jay Blotcher writes to the 5-year-old version of himself with news that it gets better.
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Jay Blotcher
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