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at greendreamer.com slash support. For me, my connection to fungi was one that was born out of like this feeling of like kinship, right?

That they, I saw in them something that I saw in myself.

And I actually found that when I saw how I felt companionship and care and comfort around these organisms

and when I saw that people had such a negative reaction to those same organisms,

that was very clarifying to me.

It was kind of interesting to me, like, how could I feel so comforted by these beings

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