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I just want to say that I am sorry for your loss. Your words are important. I share your posts with my grownup daughters in their twenties and they relate to you as do I even though my children are grown. Your honesty, your humour, your openness are a salve to us all. Please keep writing as you do. Please keep feeling as powerfully as you do. Please keep speaking for all of us

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Thank you Annabel it truly is so lovely to hear that. I really appreciate it x

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I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. Please take good care of yourself, especially now when you are still recovering from major surgery. I've wanted to write to you for the longest time to tell you how much I appreciate your writing - you've helped me feel less crazy and alone because we have such similar views of the world. Your words have helped me tell others how I'm feeling and have changed my relationships for the better. Thanks so much, Emily. You are a treasure beyond words.

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Thank you Meg. That means a lot to me, it really does x

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I so resonate with the importance of a friend you've met not in person but online, or by good old post. I send fan mail to one of my favourite NZ teen writers and she wrote back. I've never met her in person and she doesn't meet fans in person, but the correspondence we've shared is treasured. If/when she passes I know I'll be sad, because our hearts touched through our words.

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I was about to write almost exactly as Annabel had and with sympathy too( I share your wisdom with my two daughters in their thirties)

You keep me alert to the world with your open hearted intelligence. Your constant striving to understand both yourself and others,& your sharp humour. I hope your carapace of self protection grows ever stronger as you deal with troubled naysayers

Thankyou again

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