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By Molly BashawFebruary 2021Home is 1.1 miles away, about a five-minute bike ride. I can feel the distance in my gut, like a rubber band with one end attached to my apartment and the other to my lower intestine.
By Hank StephensonFebruary 2021February 2021In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
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By Ethan HubbardFebruary 2021I read all the literature hospice brought: Give the gift of comfort and calm. Give them support, permission. Give them more than they gave you.
By Stephanie AustinFebruary 2021All the data so far suggest that a single treatment, or two treatments, with psychedelics can relieve depression for an extended period, because the psychedelics cause the patient to see the world differently.
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