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essays and encouragement for people doing their best in a messed up world.

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About Nora McInerny

Author, speaker, and host of "Terrible, Thanks for Asking," a podcast that lets people be honest about the hard things in life. Remarried widow raising a blended family with my current, very much alive husband (knock on wood). Very tall.

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