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Sep 22Liked by Robert the contemplative

No words just 😭😭

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i’m in tears today. this was a step forward that I didn’t expect.

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Sep 22Liked by Robert the contemplative

Wow, this moved me on today! thank you for articulating what it feels like to face our little selves again and love them. reminds me of bell hooks writing about a childhood pic she loved and grieved losing: “There is a look of heavenly joy on my face. I grew up needing this image, cherishing it — my one reminder that there was a precious little girl inside me able to know and express joy.“

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First of all…you had me at bell hooks 👏🏾 and thank you for reading 🙏🏾

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Sep 23Liked by Robert the contemplative

‘Celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and failed’.

Fully relate to the vulnerability hangover 😂 it’s hard to know the balance between the feeling of sharing too much and too little. This was beautifully written and utterly, humanly relatable.

Beautiful little boy to beautiful adult.

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♥️ thank you

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Sep 24Liked by Robert the contemplative

What a precious, precious sweet-faced little one you were.

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😭 I’m learning to believe and see that.

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Sep 23Liked by Robert the contemplative

Good afternoon. Thank you for sharing, it really is needed. I am working on healing my inner child and this has been a reminder to keep it up.

-Also, to the thought that everyone who goes into the desert, dies, I can say that I have been stuck in the desert and came close but survived. Gonna have to write about that. 😅👍🏼

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Hey Thank you for commenting! I was so confident as a young child that the desert automatically killed people. Ha.

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Sep 23Liked by Robert the contemplative

GM! Enjoyed the post!

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Thank you!

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Sep 22Liked by Robert the contemplative

thank you for this, robert 🤍 and I hope you thanks yourself too.

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😊

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Thank you for sharing your words despite the vulnerability hangover!

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Thanks for sharing and being vulnerable. I am glad you made it and lived to tell us about it.

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I’m a Robert too. I’m lucky - my parents took hundreds of pix of me as a child. But this one picture of you, Robert, and your words today have made cry, so that I can barely see what I am typing now. Bless you, fellow Robert.

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bless you too Robert :) Thank you for reading

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❤️so glad you are here❤️

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me too :)

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This is the song that came through when I received the notification of your post:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhYlzuY6W4&si=69L9PgcYey8M-4jB

Sosongo for your vulnerability 🙏🏾

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thank you!

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Thank you for this. So glad you are safe now.

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thank you for reading and witnessing :)

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