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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… Continue reading
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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,… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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 –… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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Letter 13 – Never measure yourself on someone else’s scale
A mother’s letter to her daughter on how to not fall for comparison trap in life. Continue reading
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The real freedom in life is having a choice
This Women’s Day, a heartfelt letter on the four building blocks every woman needs to build a life on her own terms – education, money, health, and relationships. Because real freedom isn’t given. It’s built. Continue reading
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Letter 12 – Don’t miss the Mangoes and Litchi’s
80 summers. That’s roughly what we get. A mother’s letter on why life is lived in years – and how skills, emotions, relationships, money and health all quietly compound while we’re busy counting days. Continue reading
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