The Club
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Read between July 13 - July 15, 2022
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That if you really wanted to do it, it was never too late to change your life. To follow your dreams. To be a better person. To start treating the people around you the way they deserved to be treated.
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She could feel their excitement, understand their anxiety; she realized, from years of observation, that being famous yourself did not inoculate you against others’ celebrity.
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We all have versions of ourselves we can bear to look at, versions we prepare for the world’s consumption, that we hope will make ourselves loved, allow us to be forgiven. Versions of our real selves that allow us to live with the things we have done.
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“I guess what we hadn’t reckoned with was that when you give people a mask, that’s when they show you what they really are.”
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What does it do to someone, to be repeatedly told that what you know to be true is a lie? How does it change the way you relate to the world, to other people? How you process your grief, how you carry your anger? All that pain, all that rage—she could literally feel it, like a weight pressing down on her heart, her lungs.