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...! Heh. Even with all my efforts, I still have a long ways to go.

[She will not relapse back into that self-sabotaging, self-loathing, hopeless self that defined her for so long. She doesn't shrivel up in inferiority, looking at a real--in numerous meanings of the word--woman, something she couldn't be.

It does feel like she is walking a tightrope, however.]

I admire your feminine tenacity. I'll be taking notes from this inspiration.