To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Jean Genet
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
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The great poet Emily Dickinson once said, “To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.” To write is to put yourself out there to be judged by others, whether they like what you have written or not. The only way to get through the pain of betrayal is to put it out there for everyone to see. Writing gives other people something to think about, but writing also gives us something to think about other than the person who has wronged us. It helps us forgive them and move on.

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