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It is about finding joy in the in-between. The uncomfortable. And the brutal.

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I am a therapist, an academic, an over educated jewess and an existentialist. I am also an ex sex worker, the child of lesbians and communists, a maniac, and have not succumbed to a traumatic life, my cancer diagnoses, or the waiting darkness