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    It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity From a Messy Life Well Lived
    It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity From a Messy Life Well Lived
    It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity From a Messy Life Well Lived
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    It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity From a Messy Life Well Lived

    By Maryann Lombardi

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    "Our lives don't unfold like a novel-they are episodic, and don't always have a clean narrative. Our lives are a collection of essays."


    When you identify yourself, where do you begin? Which labels do you use, where did they come from? Do you define yourself or are you living a narrative someone else created for you? Why do we n

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Degree Press
    Release dateFeb 2, 2022
    ISBN9781637309865
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