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12 life lessons from 59 years of mistakes

12 life lessons from 59 years of mistakes

I have some thoughts. About everything I did wrong and how to fix them.

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Isham Park, February 14, 2016 ©Deborah Copaken

Today is my 59th birthday. In honor of making it this far—and given my vast experience with wrong turns, health challenges, plain old stupidity, and bad luck—here are a few lessons I’ve finally learned. The hard way. So you don’t have to:

  1. Your gut knows, even if you don’t. When a longterm partner was cheating…

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