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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
I love Cheryl's writing, and this book is no exception. It is easy to read yet full of words deep in meaning and contemplation. Out of her "Dear Sugar" columns included in the book, my favorite was "Waiting By the Phone", as it perfectly encapsulated those teenage feelings of angst that one goes through after a break up that are painful, yet necessary. My heart ached and related also when I read "Like an Iron Bell", the first column featured, as her discussion about her mother dying alone ("I wasn't with my mom when she died. No one was. She died alone in a hospital room, and for so many years it felt like three-quarters of my insides were frozen solid because of that. I ran it over and over in my mind, the series of events and choices that kept me from being beside my mom in her last hours, but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom") resurrected a lot of my feelings about my mother's own death (and life) during the pandemic.