Moving on from a year of heartbreak

Dec 30, 2020
Dec 30, 2020 Updated Feb 10, 2021

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Anyone else as excited as I am to see the end of 2020? I know that Jan. 1 will be just an-other day on the calendar, but for every second that leaves this year in the dust there’s a part of me that’s going to celebrate.

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