I didn’t want to write a newsletter this week because I am feeling depressed. But I don’t have the luxury to actually BE depressed (i.e., curl up on my bed for a week) because I can’t afford that financially. So, I have to be functionally depressed instead. In fact, I was talking to a girlfriend recently about this, and no matter how severely depressed …
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