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Tabea Verena's avatar

i enjoy your writing so much! thank you for sharing such personal thoughts and feelings. they seem to touch a part of me I haven't felt in a while.

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

Thank you so much 🩷 I had a lot of doubts that this was worth publishing so I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it and that it resonated with you 🥹

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elenazc's avatar

This is such a beautiful piece, it resonates so much right now, mil gracias 💔

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

🥹 mil gracias a ti por estar ❤️‍🩹

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Jake's avatar

Hope you guys are in your little slice of France for a long time to come yet. Seeing first hand how happy you guys were there was a real treat.

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

Your stay made us even happier. But let’s collectively ask the universe to give us a longggggggg time here!!

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Florencia Ornelas's avatar

Thanks for the vulnerability, Emily. I enjoyed and related to this essay so much as I went through a contractive process myself when I moved to Canada from Mexico in 2021. It was a painful goodbye but it opened the doors to so many blessings in my life and Alanh, my partner. Also, Young Mungo is one of my absolute favorite books of all times!

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

Young Mungo is incredible!! And Shuggie Bain too! I loved them both so much!! I was really doubting whether to share this because I thought that nobody would really care so seeing that you liked it really feels great <3 thank you 🥹

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Seeds Planter's avatar

I love how you describe your feelings because you are able the transmite them or at least I feel them. I was you many times. During the way back from Madrid (the first time), my mother picked me up from the station, I felt lost, again. I can't accept uncertainty yet, despite it belongs to me after many years of movings. But that evening, while crying and with the attentive and silence look of my mother, I realised, that I'm home, wherever I stay, I am my own home. And I could breath and release the load.

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

This is beautiful 🩷 We are home wherever our people are and we're lucky that we can take them with us wherever we go, one way or another. Just like I've taken you with me all over the place 😜

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Freddy Alien's avatar

I enjoyed your writing ! What a style ! Thank you for sharing these personal internal thoughts, feelings and hopes. The text get us through :

=> Unknown => Depression => Refusing => Overwhelmed => Experiment=> Recognition=> Acceptance => Inner Peace => Happiness.

You're such a great writer, we need more such writings ! That's the best writing I've read here so far.

I loved these expression

I - "There was a lot of emotional baggage to be unpacked."

II - "It felt good to reach the tipping point and understand that while we make plans, life makes other ones for us."

🙌🏻 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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