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Sharron Bassano's avatar

As the oldest child in my family and a type-A girl, besides, I always had to be the one to look out for everything. This followed me into my work and it was wearing me out to always feel responsible for everyone. Hah! My therapist ( yes, I had a therapist) said to me " Sharron, if you don't do it, someone else will. They won't do it as well as you do it, and that's okay." Man, she just set me free with the last part of that. Thanks for a great letter. I love to read over your shoulder.

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Mary B's avatar

Love this letter to Terry, RH! "Always do your best and think of those coming behind you" is a paraphrase of what we (5 kids in the fam) were taught on how to approach housework, homework, any kind of work. Poor little egg, and good for you for thinking on how to solve the issue of the cup swallowing up the egg before you could get to it. RE: wrong words and right words and their order, reminded me of a French Canadian dance teacher I had about 28 years ago, who said in a group dance lesson, "Throw me across the room my hat". That's a fav to this day. 😁

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