160. Coping

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Coping with pain and sorrow was an art all of its own, she found. Learning this peculiar skill seemed to require a lot of trial and error, falling and still managing to stand up again.

But when she finally managed to pull together some semblance of a coping mechanism, the most wondrous thing happened: whenever disaster inevitably struck again, it no longer seemed like the end of the world. Instead, it had become a new beginning, a little seed from which a new opportunity to bloom could grow.

It was still messy and far from perfect, but it made her able to keep going. And sometimes, that is more than enough.

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