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Self: The Third Marriage

Self: The Third Marriage

Perhaps the most difficult marriage of all

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Sep 30, 2023
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You are neither here nor there
A hurry through which strange and known things pass

-Seamus Heaney

Perhaps the most difficult marriage of all—the third marriage beneath the two visible, all-too-public marriages of work and relationship—is the internal and often secret marriage to that tricky movable frontier called ourselves: the marriage to the one who kee…

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