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Writing from the Ashes: Starting Over One Word at a Time

Mary Louisa Cappelli

After the firestorm reduced my home to ash, it also silenced something within me. I was numb, unable to feel, unable to write—the words I had always turned to for solace vanished. But in the winter of my life, word by word, I am reimagining my life.

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