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Lynne C's avatar

I don't usually comment, but this is one of the best things I've read, maybe ever. I've never been lied to in the way you have, but I felt all those different scenes viscerally through the power of your words. I had to take a big breath myself at the end. You have a beautiful gift and I'm so glad you are using it and sharing it despite everything.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Wow, Lynne, I am so so honored! Thank you for taking the time to comment and encourage me today, means more than you know ❤️

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Olivia Murphy's avatar

I love the idea of setting the scene for the hard things that remain unnamed or impossible to explain in my mind. Thank you, Katie. Your words are like good medicine.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Humbled by this, Olivia ❤️ thank you!

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Ashlee Gadd's avatar

I’m so glad you hit publish on this one. Also - I’d like to officially cast a vote for more Eminem lyrics in your subtitles 😜 Love you, always.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

I will see what I can do 😜

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Brianna Miller's avatar

Of everything of yours that I've had the pleasure of reading, this one, THIS ONE, screams from the rooftops. I don't know if that makes sense. But it's all I can think to say. And I truly hope it helped you to put it down on paper for us to witness as it will help those who read it. <3

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Wow, I am so humbled by this encouragement Brianna ❤️ thank you!

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Dani Elgas's avatar

There has not once ever been a time I’ve read your words and not felt something- like deep in my soul. You have a gift with words, a gift to help people feel seen and known in their own stories, just by writing yours. While I may not relate entirely here, “it seems like your life cannot hold the weight of your dreams” will live in my mind for a while.

Thanks for sharing your story friend. ❤️

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Thank you, sweet friend 🥹

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Megan Hogg's avatar

I hate that you went through this, Katie. But somehow you keep turning your pain into art, and I am in awe ❤️

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

❤️

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Judy Jackson's avatar

I don’t know how you so amazingly put into words each thing my soul has felt as I also went through a loss of marriage and seeing my former spouse as a total stranger to me now. Thank you for being vulnerable enough to put it into words. The way you write is incredible. I hope you keep sharing your gift with anyone who finds it.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

I’m so sorry, Judy 💔 Sending you so much love from here. Thank you for reading and encouraging me today!

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Sarah Hitchings's avatar

Katie, this is BEAUTIFUL. The emotional world can be so invisible that when you put words to it, it DOES give weight, it gives lines, it gives colors. Bravo!

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Thank you Sarah, so encouraged by you!

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Melissa Havertz's avatar

I can’t leave this without commenting on how I have never read something like this before. It stings and uplifts and makes me want to live more abundantly. What a gift you are to the world. Thank you.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Wow. What sweet encouragement to me. Thank you Olivia!

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Nicole Craig's avatar

Katie, this is so incredibly powerful and resonates so deeply with me. Your ability to not only capture the feelings and inner power struggle but to truly allow the reader to understand and feel it.....it’s astonishing! Thank you, for putting an understandable and recognizable, but still unnamed face to feelings so many can resonate with during the most impossible journeys. Simply incredible!

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Hugs to you from here, Nicole ❤️

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Aly Prades's avatar

So powerful. Thank you for sharing and fighting to name and reclaim your strength, your words, and your intuition.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

❤️

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Jenna DW's avatar

This was - wow.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

❤️

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Shannon Williams's avatar

Blown away. Thank you for telling us in so many ways what it feels like. <3

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

❤️

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Lauren Flanagan's avatar

Wow, this is so powerful, Katie, and absolutely exquisitely written.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

Thank you, Lauren ❤️

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Caroline C's avatar

"It seems your life cannot hold the weight of your dreams." What a line!

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Karly Pancake's avatar

I resonate with this so much. Thank you. I'm going to think thru how I can give a scene to the way it feels in my situation. I appreciate this so much, thank you.

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Katie Blackburn's avatar

I’m sorry that it does resonate, Karly ❤️ But finding some words for it has been like finding a place for the hurt, and that’s helped a little. Hugs to you!

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