"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." (Joan Didion)

She's right of course - for better and for worse.

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Only 121 days remain before my book is published. For more than a year now, I have watched—with great fascination (and sometimes envy)—as others have launched and published their books. I’ve taken screenshots of their Instagram posts, sent myself text messages of ideas, maintained an email file labeled “promotion,…