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Letting go

Letting go

On packing up houses & handing in novels

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Kate Mildenhall
Feb 14, 2023
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How many of your grandmother’s vintage plates are too many? What to do with a lifetime’s collection of lace tablecloths and doilies? And does that sentence you’ve been holding on to for the last four years really need to stay? The past couple of weeks have been an exercise in looking closely, feeling all the feels, and in some cases, practicing letting go.

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