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    The weight of knowing

    What’s worse? Being hit all at once unexpectedly or being hit after having had the chance to brace for impact? Being blindsided is quite impactful, but being proven right can also have a strong kind of reckoning. It is frankness vs betrayal. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to choose how we’d like to be “wounded” because everything would flow in a gentler way. But it is not a perfect world. Sometimes, we’re caught off guard…even after knowing what’s coming. And transitioning from that limbo can be challenging, regardless of whether we’d been warned or not But somewhere between those two, lies the quiet ache of truth; the truth we…