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    A Year in Reading: Terese Mailhot

    by Terese Mailhot Dec 17, 2019 4 minutes

    I made the commitment this year that I would try to be happy. My best friend died last September. She was the fun one who took me to new restaurants and wore prints I never could. She made me travel and laugh. Before she died, we were going to Australia next. We were going to pet Koalas whether they had chlamydia or not. When I gave her eulogy, I made a commitment to keep my life as vivid as she left it and then found myself failing. Life was dull, even with books, which is unlike me.

    At her celebration of life ceremony, everyone

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