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            <title><![CDATA[Grief Is a Doorway, and We Must Walk Through]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:07:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No Country for Long Paragraphs and Big Words]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:03:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Was Jealous of Another Medium Writer — Then Saw Their Work-Rate]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2023 17:32:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Was Fired From My First Job for Being Racist]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Forget Genius — What Society Needs Is More “Scenius”]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Unending Frustration of Being a Medium Writer]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Commodification of Kindness]]></title>
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