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7 Positive Lessons Learned From Rejection

positive lessons learned from rejection, by Devina Kaur

Photograph by Steve Snider

7 positive lessons to help re-frame the experience of rejection

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True story: It was a leap year, the year that comes around every four years that all men dread! It’s the day when tradition dictates that women who are fed up of waiting for a proposalmake their own proposal on February 29th.

My proposal was to ask a friend /ex-lover to have a baby with me. (I explained that having sex was not necessary, artificial insemination would do the trick). While I was waiting for him to decide about that, I also asked him to marry

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