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"I love Facebook. It&amp;#039;s let me get back in touch with a lot of friends from my high school and college days, but more than that, it&amp;#039;s let me get back in touch with who I used to be, reliving moments and memories through their remembered stories. Once upon a time I was fearless. I was this funny, spontaneous, oh-what-the-heck-let&amp;#039;s-do-it, creative, fierce person who was determined to write my name in a blaze across the sky. I&amp;#039;m older now, and having kids has certainly curtailed some of my more reckless tendencies, but where is the rest of that girl? I spent entirely too many years trying to be someone else&amp;#039;s definition of good enough. I put so much of myself on a back burner because I knew what I wanted out of life wasn&amp;#039;t always what he wanted and what he wanted took precedence. I&amp;#039;m as much to blame for that as Peter is, really. It doesn&amp;#039;t make sense for me to paint him as the bad guy when I&amp;#039;m the one who enabled so much of his bad behavior. But now I don&amp;#039;t have Peter standing in my way, anymore. There&amp;#039;s just me in my way, me putting myself on that back burner and telling myself I&amp;#039;m not good enough to try or not worthy enough to deserve more. And it&amp;#039;s all nonsense. I&amp;#039;ve decided that from now on, I&amp;#039;m going to talk to myself like I&amp;#039;m talking to Anna. Would I ever tell Anna to give up? That it&amp;#039;s useless to try to make a difference in your own life? To sit back and hope it gets better without taking action to try to see to it that it does? That&amp;#039;s a big, resounding no. I&amp;#039;m going to try to spend 2013 being everything I want my daughter to be. And remembering that I deserve to be that person. What are your goals for for the coming year? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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