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  • Dumbo Feather

    The Edge of Everything

    May 02, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS: NICOLE GIBSON
    ILLUSTRATION: CARLA MCRAE

    I left Australia for South America with a busy mind and heavy heart. My weeks had been tessellating from corporate stages in busy cities to small group work in suicide-affected towns. When I got home to my partner, I would be struck with a deep guilt at not being present to any of it. I began to cling to vices as a way of getting through the haziness of my days—either to help me feel or to

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