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Amy Koss's avatar

Abagail, Haven’t heard from you in a while. Don’t forget to write — we miss you.

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Amy Koss's avatar

Now I see this piece! And see that you posted it fairly recently. It didn’t come to me. I only see it now because I was looking for some way to nag you because it seemed overly long since you sent word from your beautiful brain.

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Abigail Thomas's avatar

Thank you very much. You are really very kind.

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Regret makes us better. A feather and regret. Another beautiful piece, Abigail. I didn’t see this until now. I always see all of your work. I wonder why?

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Abigail Thomas's avatar

I don't know, but I think The Bucket may have joined with Substack for a few things. I know there's a new part ofr Sunstack doing a magazine and they took this from The Bucket, a terrific online magazine that published it originally. It's coming out in that magazine next week. I was very flattered.

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Wonderful Abby. Will you provide a link for us? 🌹

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Abigail Thomas's avatar

I will give you the name of the magazine, but I don't know how to rovide a link. I will try! It appears on Wednesday, but I will remember the name of the magazine in a minute. I thinkit';s called Crow's Feet!!

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Crows Feet! Okay

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Esther Stanway-Williams's avatar

I like this idea…that guilt turns into regret…a softer version of itself, and therefore easier to carry. That feather felt very meaningful to me too…I found my own white feather on a walk and the photo of it appeared at the top of my post about the ‘Forgiveness’ that I wanted from my son for what I perceived as my failing him. He died by suicide so could obviously never give it to me. The link is below:

https://open.substack.com/pub/losingmysontosuicide/p/forgiveness?r=4eyhnh&utm_medium=ios

PS I won’t bombard you with any more links…this is the 3rd one after all. If you have the opportunity to read any of my writing it would be really appreciated!

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