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Cinderella's avatar

You are so loved for sharing your profound insights into being human. It has shown me how to actually live out my remaining days. I’m 73! Thank you thank you Thank you ❣️

Jenny Peterson's avatar

I love that I’m responding to Cinderella 💜— and I’m so happy that this post landed with you!

How We Get Through This's avatar

Love it. Authenticity all the way =D

Jenny Peterson's avatar

Thank you, Monica! 💜

Monica Hebert's avatar

I’ll push it via notes first thing tomorrow morning.

RESIST | FIGHT's avatar

There’s something profoundly honest about the way you describe grief not just as sadness, but as the bargaining, the resisting, the stomping your feet.

That shift from future-self dreams to learning how to walk again — that’s a reorientation most of us can’t imagine until we’re forced into it.

The way you talk about purpose changing shape — from milestones to presence, connection, inhabiting who you already are — feels hard-won and real. Not inspirational in a glossy way. Just true.

Thank you for writing it without pretending it’s tidy.