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Only real when shared? Realizing I'm less curmudgeonly than I purported. This one is not about birds or fishing--but also not not about birds or fishing. Revisiting incapacity.

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James Freitas
May 28, 2023
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Prothonotary Warbler. 2018.

They say happiness is only real when shared.

They being whoever coins cliches. Those words are attributable to Chris McCandless, but people have taken the notion and run with it. You might say cliches are cliches because they’re true. Is this one? I’m mixed—in a way I wasn’t expecting.

The main issue I take with this sentiment…

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