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Sarah Morgan (sarahmorgan) on BuzzFeed - Sarah used to live in D.C. and work for nonprofits. Now she lives in Brooklyn and, more or less, writes for a living.

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I offer the following random musings, a small fraction of those I’ve recorded over the decades of my mostly wasted life, as comic relief from the ever-increasing horrors. As they ...

It’s become one of my longest-running traditions as a writer. Every New Year’s Day, the first thing I publish is a compendium of inspirational quotes, one for each of the next 365 days (366 in leap ...

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