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A message to my 20-something self

A message to my 20-something self

You cannot win. I'm sorry.

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Tracy Clark-Flory
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There’s a question I get asked a lot in interviews about my memoir: “What do you wish you could tell your 20-something self?” Sometimes I gesture toward my book—all 70,000 words of it. That. All of that is what I wish I could tell her.

This week, I came up with a shorter message.

I wish I could tell my 20-something self that you cann…

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