Because of the route I chose and because of the path that I'd taken, of course, there were also still speed bumps and things that went awry or things that went wrong.

But I also found some mentors.

I also found some people that held my hand and gave me opportunities to really do things I'd never done before.

But then I had to show up to those things.

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I remember with clarity, decades of just thinking I'm a piece of shit.

It's how I woke up in the morning.

It's how I lived my days.

It's how I went to bed.

My belief at the time was that anybody who didn't say that that was going on for them were lying and they were

pretending and that anybody who was happy on a regular basis was either delusional or was

explicitly lying to me to hide their pain. That was my firmly, firmly held belief.

So much so I dated this girl in UCLA when I was in undergrad she was undergrad and um

I made her cry one day like this is how terrible this belief was I made her cry because I was so

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