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12 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started This Newsletter

Reflections on two years.

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Caroline Cala Donofrio
Sep 25, 2023
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This week marks two years of writing this newsletter.

It started as an exercise in commitment—a promise to show up every week, with no real plan beyond that. Over a hundred essays, three dozen interviews, and hundreds of card readings later—roughly four books’ worth of words!—I’d like to tell you I know exactly what I’m doing. But nothing could be furthe…

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