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Insight 004 — THE GOOD REVIEW THAT HURTS

  • Alex Revival
  • 3 days ago
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MAYA POST 4: THE GOOD REVIEW THAT HURTS

"Beautiful writing. Took me a while to get into it, but worth it."

Maya read it three times.

Told herself it was a compliment.

Read it again at 2am.

It wasn't a compliment.

It was the most polite way a reader had ever said: the beginning almost lost me.

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