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About five years ago my significant other and I were in a dumb argument. I wasn’t backing down. She wasn’t backing down. During the stalemate, I vented to a friend. I
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I wanted to talk to Trevor Kashey about goals for my book, The Comfort Crisis, because he seemed so good at achieving them. He had enrolled himself in college at age
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