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Welcome Into My Mind

Welcome Into My Mind

By Maria Shriver
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Some weeks I have no idea what to write for my essay here in The Sunday Paper. Some weeks I just sit down and start writing, not yet knowing where my mind will take me.

This is where it took me this week.

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