as if it were a point of arrival—a final destination, and once you’ve reached it, there should be no going back. Once you’ve found the love of your life, you’re not meant to go on living without them. Once you’ve become a successful author, you’re not meant to return to being a struggling writer. Once you’ve reached a certain level of fame, you’re not meant to go back to being unknown, uninteresting, undesirable. Nobody talks about what it’s like to get everything you ever wanted… and then lose it. There’s no rulebook for what to do when that happens. At best, people will show you pity. At
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