This week I have had an highly unusual busy reading week with reading 3 books.  Yes, one of them was an audiobook but I still completed it which is good. This week I read… Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel Chidiac Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir by Alyson Stoner This is what I thought of each one. Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel Chidiac Sometimes it is necessary to hear things again that you

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