And I said to my body, softy: I want to be your friend. It took a long breath, and replied: I have been waiting my whole life for this.

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"My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived."

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"You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you."

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"There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship."

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"I am mine before I am anyone else’s."

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"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

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"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

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