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Stumbling across our former selves

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Leslie Kern
Aug 12, 2024
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Photo of the Old Mill hotel in Toronto, a tudor-style building
The Old Mill, Toronto

This week I’m spending a couple of days at a hotel to focus on writing. I chose the location - Toronto’s Old Mill - because I knew it would be a quiet, restful setting compared to the chaos of the central city. What I didn’t contemplate was that this is a location where many of my former selves collide. Instead of the noise of the c…

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