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When creative work becomes wishful thinking about unlived lives

I keep starting novels about families that don't fall apart like mine did but the happy endings feel like lies I'm telling myself.

Mira
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Fiction can become a refuge from reality that ultimately deepens the exile from it.

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