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+Title: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: personal
+Status: draft
+
+> _And I tell myself to let the story end
+> And my heart will rest in someone else's hand
+> My 'why not me?' philosophy began
+> And I say
+> Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you?
+> I'll be alright, just not tonight
+> But someday_
+>
+> —Sara Barellies, ["Gonna Get Over You"](https://genius.com/Sara-bareilles-gonna-get-over-you-lyrics)
+
+So, I haven't been doing so well for the past four and a half months.
+
+Explaining this will require some context.
+
+I've spent basically my entire adult life
+
+believed our own propoganda
+
+Blanchard ... categories
+
+cognitive dissonance
+
+smart people clearly know
+
+
+I'll be alright. Just not tonight.