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Sonia Bahl's avatar

You say what every writer feels, and you say it with such eloquent honesty. I needed to read this today like ink needs paper. Don't stop writing. Hugs.

PS: I read JHUMPA several times. I wish I'd written it.

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Tara Sahgal's avatar

Thank you for taking the time to comment. Don't stop writing either! Hugs.

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Bittu Sahgal's avatar

Tara I cannot understand which hidden vault supplies you with the alphabetic fluidity that charcterises your texts! Speaking for myself, all too often I find myself writing a letter, or a social media communication... when, without warning, a long-hidden thought materialises on the screen. I then find myself abandoning the original post, and copy-pasting the text into a long-pending, half-written article that lay abandoned and forlorn for weeks, sometime months. Suddenly, 2,000 words are born, sometimes gurgling, other times screaming... largely hanging onto the coat-tails of parent thoughts from decades ago about a magical biosphere that Homo sapiens neither understands, nor values.

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Tara Sahgal's avatar

The Muses, The Muses! Which magically appear when we work hard at a thing :) Love.

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