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7 Important Tips to Surviving Life’ s Most Difficult
MOMENTS
BY KAILEAN WELSH
You’ ve had those days, or even weeks, when everything goes wrong. As the saying so pessimistically goes,“ when it rains, it pours.”
Once in a while, it’ s a deluge: the kids are sick, the company downsizes and you’ re out of a job, you argue with your partner, the hot water heater leaks all over the basement, you wonder how you’ re going to pay the rent.
Other times the flood is so intense you feel you may drown: that lump becomes a breast cancer diagnosis, the baby so eagerly anticipated is stillborn, the argument becomes a request for a divorce, a random car accident takes the life of someone you love.
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