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We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent. ✨ bell hooks (2008). Belonging: A Culture of Place, p.25, Routledge
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We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent. ✨ bell hooks (2008). Belonging: A Culture of Place, p.25, Routledge

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