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Letter 23 – The letter I hope You never need..
Dear Daughter, In my last letter, I wrote about what love looks like. Today I want to write about its shadow – heartbreak. I hope you never need this letter. But since no one can predict anything, I want you to have it. Something to reach for at two in the morning, when the world…
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Letter 22 – What real Love looks like
Dear Daughter, Last week, I wrote to you about infatuation – the bright, consuming feeling that arrives quickly and, often, leaves just as fast. I told you that love takes longer. That it needs time to prove itself. This week, I want to tell you what it looks like when it finally does. Because real…
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Letter 21 – what no one tells teenage girls about falling for someone
Dear Daughter, There is a phrase you have grown up hearing – in films, in songs, in the conversations of older cousins at family gatherings. I love you. Three words that carry, depending on who says them and when, the weight of the entire world. While you have seen/heard a short version of it in school, in…
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Letter 20 – Not everyone who calls you friend, means it
You’re almost there. In few months, you’ll be living with strangers, eating meals with people whose last names you don’t know yet, and trying to figure out which corridor leads to which classroom while pretending you already know. It will be exhilarating and disorienting in the same breath. And somewhere in that beautiful chaos, you…
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Letter 19 – College is where you begin Becoming
Dear Daughter, There will come a morning – not far from now – when you will wake up in a room that is yours but still unfamiliar, and you will hear the sounds of a world that does not yet know your name. That morning, I want you to remember something: this is exactly where…
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Letter 18 – The real freedom is having a choice
Dear Daughter, The world you’re growing up in is better than the one I grew up in, which was better than the one before that. But don’t let that fool you into thinking the work is done. Even today, in the most ‘modern’ societies, women’s pain is dismissed, their ambitions are quietly shrunk, and their…
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Letter 17 – Its time..to spread your wings
Dear Daughter, I still remember the day I dropped you to school for the first time. I don’t think I had ever felt that kind of fear before. My heart was sinking at the thought of you managing alone – among so many children, so many strangers. I was trying to look brave, but I’m…
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Letter 16 – You do not owe us your life…
Dear Daughter, Before I begin the next series of letters about college and that new chapter of your life, there is something I must tell you. When I left for college, I was the eldest daughter in the entire family to step out and study away from home. I carried more than just a suitcase…
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Letter 15 – After every evening, there comes a sunshine
Life is all about emotions, one just needs to know how to regulate them.
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Letter 14 – Your time is not public property
Dear Daughter, I’ve been quietly watching a small moment repeat itself – and today, I want to tell you why it matters more than it seems. Every time one of your friends calls during dinner, I see you hesitate. You want to say you’ll call back, but you don’t. You stay on the call, even…
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