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S E P T E M B E R | I S S U E N O . 2 1 0 1 0 6<br />
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The <strong>Magazine</strong> For Women 45+<br />
Y A N A S C H N I T Z L E R :<br />
C R E A T I N G P E R F O R M A N C E A R T<br />
When We Care<br />
Too Much<br />
It Hurts<br />
Yana Schnitzler:<br />
Creating<br />
Performance Art<br />
Dear Ms Mostly<br />
Retirement: Is It The<br />
End Of The Line?
C O N T R I B U T O R S<br />
04<br />
Sherry Kallergis<br />
Editor<br />
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19<br />
APRIL ROSE MORE<br />
APRIL ROSE MORE<br />
PHOTOGRAPH<br />
07<br />
sue dumais<br />
heart led living<br />
20<br />
dear ms mostly<br />
12cover<br />
yana schnitzler<br />
Human kinetics<br />
22<br />
michelle segoly<br />
cyber unit
E D I T O R ' S N O T E S<br />
<br />
<br />
Why is it such a struggle to be ourselves? To live our life on<br />
our own terms?<br />
We should be able to live large and in charge with a sense of<br />
pride but often we are beset by anxiousness. Should we,<br />
could we, do I have it right, what will others think?<br />
In this issue, we are exploring perspectives, learning to let<br />
go of what is in our way, real or imagined.<br />
Included is a wonderful opportunity to join an art project<br />
with women from around the world who are intent on<br />
releasing that which no longer serves them.<br />
I hope you find your freedom.<br />
Live well.<br />
<br />
SHERRY KALLERGIS<br />
<br />
I D O N ' T W A N T T O B E A T T H E M E R C Y O F M Y E M O T I O N S . I W A N T T O U S E T H E M , T O<br />
E N J O Y T H E M , A N D T O D O M I N A T E T H E M . ” ~ O S C A R W I L D E
C O N T E N T S<br />
04<br />
editor's notes<br />
07<br />
when we care too<br />
much it hurts<br />
12<br />
yana schnitzler:<br />
creating<br />
performance art<br />
19<br />
aura of woman<br />
20<br />
dear ms mostly,<br />
retirement is it the<br />
end of the line?<br />
22<br />
5 Ways <strong>You</strong> Can<br />
Improve Security On<br />
<strong>You</strong>r Mobile Devices
WHEN WE CARE TOO<br />
MUCH IT HURTS<br />
/ BY SUE DUMAIS<br />
Caring too much can be more harmful than helpful. The idea that we should be caring and<br />
compassionate individuals is not a new concept. We are taught at a very young age to care about<br />
others but the problem is that there is more importance placed on caring about what others think,<br />
do, and have. We are often programmed to care more about other people’s lives and their opinions<br />
than our own lives and opinions.<br />
“<strong>What</strong> will the neighbours think?”<br />
“Stop doing that—everyone is watching.”<br />
We learn to care so much that we are in constant judgment or fear of judgment, judging whether<br />
others are good or bad, rich or poor, kind or mean, healthy or unhealthy; judging whether they like<br />
us or not and whether they approve of what we are doing or not doing. Caring more about others<br />
becomes a distraction from caring about ourselves and it also opens us up to deep hurt and more<br />
harm than good.<br />
When I was knee-deep into the fitness and wellness industry, I was a sponge for knowledge. I was<br />
constantly taking courses, reading books, and studying research. <strong>Find</strong>ing out how the body works<br />
and what makes it tick consumed me. I was addicted to health and sharing that message with<br />
others. It fed my childhood desire to save the world. In truth, it wasn’t just a strong desire—it<br />
became my responsibility. In other words, I made it my mission, my responsibility. It was on my<br />
shoulders to save the world and everyone in it, including the animals. Just a small burden to bear!<br />
When people were interested in what I had to teach them, it was easy, fulfilling, and I felt a deep<br />
sense of purpose and impact. But my desire to save the world wasn’t just for those who were<br />
interested or ready to be saved. I wanted to help EVERYONE whether they wanted help or not. <strong>What</strong><br />
I thought was if I could just teach them what I knew they would see how important it was and they
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would make the changes they needed to make<br />
to become healthy. I would give advice when it<br />
wasn’t welcome or I would invest much time<br />
and energy in trying to make others see the<br />
truth. I wanted them to “get it” so badly it<br />
consumed me. My love for them was fierce and<br />
I would stop at nothing.<br />
responsible for keeping them healthy and safe.<br />
At the same time, I felt out of control because I<br />
couldn’t control everything they put in their<br />
mouths and their resistance to eating my way<br />
was strong. They ate mostly healthfully, but my<br />
fear-filled mind had me convinced it wasn’t<br />
healthy enough.<br />
I cared so much that if they didn’t change, I felt<br />
responsible. Then I cared so much that I<br />
became attached to whether they changed or<br />
not. I cared so much that I became attached to<br />
them taking the information and doing<br />
something with it. Then I cared so much that I<br />
became anxious and I worried about others<br />
constantly. I cared so much that I alienated<br />
some people in my life because I just wanted so<br />
badly for them to be healthy, happy, and live a<br />
long life.<br />
When they didn’t “get it” or I wasn’t able to help<br />
them, I was devastated and carried them with<br />
me as one of my failures. After all, I had failed to<br />
help them. I had failed to help them see, to<br />
change their mind. Then I started to realize that<br />
caring too much was a heavy burden full of<br />
disappointment and suffering.<br />
Shortly after I healed from cancer, I became<br />
obsessively worried about my family’s health. I<br />
was eating mostly organic super clean food<br />
with no sugar, no wheat, no gluten, and no<br />
dairy; I was green juicing every day. After<br />
receiving a diagnosis of a genetic liver disorder,<br />
I was more aware of what I put in my mouth<br />
and how it would affect my health.<br />
My worry started to grow exponentially when I<br />
would compare how I was eating to how my<br />
husband and kids were eating. They had<br />
already said my diet was too extreme for them,<br />
but my fear kept growing and I felt heavy and<br />
One morning in meditation I started to feel a<br />
huge layer of fear rising up around the health of<br />
my husband. He was stressed at work, he had<br />
gained some weight, and I kept being pointed<br />
to his heart. I felt this huge mountain of<br />
responsibility for keeping him healthy. I had a<br />
painful vision of him dying, and of me standing<br />
over his grave with a “guilty” sign strung<br />
around my neck. Tears streamed down my<br />
cheeks as though a faucet were pouring<br />
uncontrollably. I felt responsible for his health<br />
and I believed that if he died it would be all my<br />
fault. I would be responsible for his death<br />
because I hadn’t been able to convince him to<br />
change his ways. The burden was unbearable<br />
and it cracked my heart open.<br />
I felt out of control because I couldn’t control<br />
everything they put in their mouths and their<br />
resistance to eating my way was strong.<br />
My ego-mind had convinced me I was<br />
responsible for the health of my family because<br />
I bought the groceries. So if something would<br />
have happened to them, it would have been all<br />
my fault. Later that night, I shared my vision<br />
with my husband and told him the burden I<br />
was carrying. I explained how if he died it would<br />
be all my fault. His words were such a gift as<br />
they landed in a way that shifted everything for<br />
me. He said, “<strong>You</strong> are not responsible for me or<br />
anyone else’s health. My health choices are my<br />
health choices, not yours.”
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I suddenly saw an opening in my mind and the<br />
terrifying grip of fear let go; a huge sense of<br />
relief washed over me. I couldn’t force them to<br />
eat a certain way. Trust me—I had tried and it<br />
hadn’t worked. Forcing them is not<br />
empowering them. It is not up to me; it is up to<br />
them. They must make the choice for<br />
themselves.<br />
I felt a freedom I never felt before. It was as<br />
though I let go of a lifetime of attachment to<br />
the choices others make or don’t make. It is not<br />
up to me. I can empower them with knowledge<br />
but ultimately they need to feel empowered by<br />
making their own choices. I can show up and<br />
play my part but the rest is not up to me. It is<br />
like that old saying, “<strong>You</strong> can lead a horse to<br />
water, but you cannot make it drink.”<br />
In my life and in my home, I lead by example. I<br />
buy healthy foods and make healthy meals, but<br />
my family doesn’t need to eat a hundred<br />
percent healthy all the time unless they want<br />
to. By processing my fears, I let go of my<br />
attachments around their health and accept<br />
their choices. I have also slowly let go of my<br />
judgments about their choices and freed them<br />
to empower themselves. Still, I do make<br />
decisions for my son around food, only because<br />
he would eat sugar all day long if I let him. The<br />
difference is when I do say no or yes to certain<br />
foods, it is now coming from a place of love not<br />
paralyzing fear and control disguised as caring.<br />
We are programmed to care so much that we<br />
want to help, give advice, fix, change, and make<br />
right what we think is wrong in other people’s<br />
lives. The truth is that other people’s lives are<br />
none of our business, but we make them our<br />
business and that can come at a great sacrifice<br />
and much suffering.<br />
Let’s take a look at the news for a moment. Do<br />
you feel better or worse after watching, reading,<br />
or listening to the news? I believe CNN is short<br />
for “constant negative news.” We are<br />
bombarded with images and stories that build<br />
fear and make us feel guilty for what we have,<br />
bad for what we don’t, and even worse for<br />
others. When we care so much that we feel sick<br />
to our stomach or we develop chronic anxiety<br />
about everything that is going wrong in the<br />
world, we are not helping; we are causing more<br />
harm. We are causing more harm to our own<br />
well-being, but we are also adding more fear to<br />
an already fear-filled world.<br />
I used to believe that caring showed others that<br />
I loved them. People don’t need you to care in<br />
the form of worry. That is the same as sprinkling<br />
them with fear. People want to feel loved, and<br />
caring too much is not an expression of love: it<br />
is an expression of fear. So not only are we<br />
adding more fear to the pot, we are causing<br />
more suffering inside our own minds as we<br />
learn to chronically fret and worry about others.<br />
That is not loving to others or ourselves.<br />
The world doesn’t need more fear and neither<br />
do we. We need more authentic genuine<br />
expressions of love sprinkled with empathy and<br />
compassion. Empathy calls us to imagine how<br />
they must be feeling and loving them in spite<br />
of those feelings. It is about being present for<br />
them to express and share how they feel<br />
without our judging them or trying to fix them<br />
or change how they feel. Just loving them in<br />
that moment and holding space for them to<br />
feel fully so they can heal is enough.<br />
Instead, we are taught to sympathize by feeling<br />
sorry for others and their situations. People<br />
don’t need us to feel sorry for them and it only<br />
leaves us feeling bad at the same time. Meeting
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them in fear with our own fear is not helpful.<br />
Meeting their fear with your unconditional love<br />
and being a compassionate witness allows<br />
them to feel heard, seen, and understood and<br />
at the same time allows us to hold the high<br />
note and stand strong in the energy of love.<br />
My responsibility is not to save the world<br />
anymore. I support those I am meant to<br />
support and free everyone else to live their life.<br />
Today, I do my best to see everyone through<br />
the lens of love. I honour where they are and<br />
accept that some are willing to heal and some<br />
are not. The difference from the way I used to<br />
be is I now see everyone as capable. I see<br />
everyone’s potential and I focus on that without<br />
attachment.<br />
I know that beyond their fear is all the love they<br />
could ever need or ever ask for. We all have<br />
access to that love. Some will turn toward the<br />
love and say YES and others will turn away from<br />
it and say no. I accept and honour them either<br />
way. I love them just the same. Now that<br />
doesn’t mean I devote my time and energy<br />
trying to help them all. I simply love them and I<br />
trust my heart to lead me. Either I will guide<br />
them or I won't.<br />
My responsibility is not to save the world<br />
anymore. I support those I am meant to<br />
support and free everyone else to live their life.<br />
I trust I will work with those I am meant to or<br />
they will find someone else. The pressure is off<br />
my shoulders because I took it off. The burden<br />
is no longer mine to carry because I put it<br />
down. I no longer care too much, but I have<br />
learned to love deeply without attachment and<br />
that has been the biggest gift I could have ever<br />
given myself and the world.<br />
Gift yourself or a friend a copy<br />
Stay tuned next week for chapter 2 ~ We Are<br />
More Connected Than We Are Separate<br />
Here you can read all chapters to date<br />
***This is an excerpt from Sue Dumais' book<br />
"Stand UP Stand OUT Stand STRONG ~ A 30<br />
Day Guide to Navigate Life When the SHIFT<br />
Hits the Fan"<br />
Published on atfortyfive.com with permission<br />
from © Sue Dumais<br />
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Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project
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Creating<br />
Schnitzler<br />
Yana<br />
Performance Art<br />
/BY SHERRY KALLERGIS<br />
Yana Schnitzler of Human Kinetics creates performance art. Her current participatory art project<br />
draws women together from around the world giving them a unique opportunity to heal.<br />
This performance art “Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project” offers you a role, allowing you<br />
to release that which is holding you back. We all have things in our life that hinder our personal<br />
growth. Sadly, it can be difficult to release its hold on us. I am so excited to participate and you<br />
can too. Learn more.
Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project<br />
Garment District Exhibition New York City<br />
Yana sewing fabric pieces<br />
together into the skirt<br />
Fitting the skirt on the<br />
mannequin Sally
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The project began about one and a half ago.<br />
Yana made an initial call for women to<br />
participate through social media and online,<br />
inviting them to write down on a piece of fabric<br />
what was standing in their way. Then they<br />
mailed or scanned it and emailed it to her. She<br />
started receiving pieces from over 45 countries<br />
including Australia, Bangladesh, Pakistan,<br />
Uruguay, Russia.<br />
Now, she is sewing all the pieces into a roomfilling<br />
skirt and eventually wearing it in a<br />
performance. Finally, and symbolically, the skirt<br />
will be destroyed releasing the blockages. She<br />
shares her journey today. (The following is<br />
edited for flow)<br />
How Was The Response?<br />
The response has been so touching and<br />
beautiful. When I receive those personal and<br />
sometimes intimate pieces, I often cry, because<br />
I see myself.<br />
Earlier this year, I had a gallery run in<br />
Manhattan's garment district. I hung all the<br />
pieces on the walls, to begin with, like a<br />
traditional exhibition with a mannequin<br />
affectionately named Sally, in the center of the<br />
room wearing a plain white skirt spread out<br />
filling the room.<br />
Over the course of the seven weeks, those<br />
pieces on the walls slowly came down and<br />
were attached to form the fabric of the skirt.<br />
As it was a storefront, people could see the<br />
exhibition and were drawn in by curiosity.<br />
I also had a sandwich board out on the street<br />
encouraging participation. It was unbelievable<br />
how many came in, even men. Everyone<br />
wanted to read what was on the pieces.<br />
Some came in and just stood there crying<br />
because they felt the pain that was hanging<br />
on the walls. It was a very visceral experience.<br />
Many wanted to participate and share their<br />
story. That was unexpected, after all, it is New<br />
York, people are too cool and usually too busy.<br />
I think though the project was timely. It was<br />
February, with COVID behind us and everyone<br />
was more open, waking up. <strong>You</strong> would not<br />
believe how empty New York City had been,<br />
like a ghost town.<br />
I feel because of the past year, we were scared.<br />
COVID stirred us up and gave us an<br />
opportunity for reflection, to reconsider our<br />
values and what's important to us. And I think<br />
all that really came together in the response.<br />
Some days I didn't have a single minute to<br />
create and work on the skirt because so many<br />
were coming and responding to it. They didn’t<br />
expect to see things so personal and painful,<br />
like a piece that says, depression, or shame, or<br />
anxiety or patriarchal overloads. It caused<br />
many to stop in their tracks.<br />
There was a very different level of<br />
communication happening. Women were<br />
talking, feeling, and sharing. I was there to hold<br />
the space for them to have an experience, to<br />
share their stories, or declare for themselves<br />
what they wanted to let go of.<br />
<strong>What</strong> Did <strong>You</strong> Learn?<br />
We're so much alike regardless of where we<br />
are in the world. We are all facing similar<br />
things that create a bond, a sense of<br />
community. That very fact is empowering as<br />
well.<br />
There is magic in all the positive responses. It<br />
has been an incredible journey so far.
Tales of a Phoenix: The Letting Go Project<br />
Things Women Are Letting Go
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As performance art goes, the project has its own<br />
rhythm, and it has grown. It is interesting<br />
because, at times, it did not go smoothly. At first,<br />
some days I wouldn't get pieces and I would<br />
think maybe the project is not what I should be<br />
doing, or it doesn't want to be born. Whenever I<br />
was close to giving it up, I got another piece. So,<br />
it was like dangling a carrot in front of me.<br />
Another example was when I was running out of<br />
fabric. Then my husband saw huge trash bags<br />
filled with fabric samples on the street in the<br />
garment district. The solution found me and<br />
added a tactile experience for women. Women<br />
could make more personal choices from a range<br />
of fabrics and colors.<br />
<strong>What</strong> Is Next?<br />
Originally, I wanted to create the skirt and then<br />
finish the project. The response was so powerful,<br />
so touching, and empowering that I felt it<br />
needed to be seen by as many as possible and<br />
many women should have the opportunity to<br />
participate. Pieces continue to come in and I<br />
am busy adding them to the skirt. There are<br />
multiple showings in the US and then it moves<br />
on to Germany.<br />
In the spring, I'm going to do a closing<br />
performance art show wearing the final skirt. By<br />
that time will be huge. As each piece is<br />
connected, the skirt figuratively collects<br />
women’s voices together so I am gathering<br />
those voices around me, and finally publicly<br />
destroying the skirt as a symbol of letting go.<br />
Can We Participate In This Performance<br />
Art?<br />
Yes, I am still accepting pieces. <strong>You</strong> can find the<br />
details here.<br />
Simply you take a piece of fabric you have. It<br />
could be meaningful like your favorite blouse or<br />
just an odd piece. Write what you want to let go<br />
of in whatever way you want; markers, pens,<br />
paint, even embroider or hand stitch. Then you<br />
mail it to me or scan and email it to me and I will<br />
print it on fabric.<br />
It can be a unique way of setting that intention<br />
for yourself. I encourage you to be creative.<br />
Get To Know Yana<br />
How did you get started in performance art?<br />
Growing up in communist East Germany, there<br />
wasn’t much room for individuality: <strong>You</strong> go to<br />
school, get a job, get married, have a family, and<br />
work your job until retirement. No room left or<br />
right. So, even though as a child I was always<br />
drawing and crafting, moving, and dancing, I<br />
never considered myself an artist. I was a people<br />
pleaser and thought I had to follow that ‘regular<br />
path’. However, in trying so I got into real trouble<br />
- with myself. Depression and overall<br />
unhappiness eventually led me to quit my job in<br />
the film business, which was a starting point of<br />
my journey.<br />
My journey is one of a “split personality” so to<br />
speak. I’ve always had two contradictory sides in<br />
me: a people pleaser on one side to fill that inner<br />
void and a quiet rebel against everything<br />
mainstream on the other. However, the more I<br />
am becoming who I am, the more I learn to be<br />
myself and do the things that I feel I’m here for<br />
the more these two sides are fading away.<br />
<strong>What</strong> has been the most rewarding aspect of<br />
your journey?<br />
The most rewarding aspect of my journey is that<br />
I feel like I keep growing, as an artist and as a<br />
person. I’m learning more about myself, who I<br />
am, and what I “really” care about. And in this<br />
process, I feel I’m becoming more whole.<br />
<strong>What</strong> has been an unexpected barrier and<br />
how did you overcome it?<br />
When you move to another country, as I did<br />
twenty years ago, you find all this new freedom.<br />
That’s what you left your home country for.<br />
<strong>You</strong>’re able to re-invent yourself, and you go for it.<br />
Only to realize at some point, that you carry that<br />
same cultural conditioning that you had left in<br />
the first place within yourself and that this is<br />
what holds
you back on a deeper level.<br />
Learn More<br />
<strong>What</strong> is your key strength?<br />
Focus and perseverance. I’m also quite<br />
organized.<br />
If you could meet anyone for lunch, who<br />
would it be?<br />
I have a long list but to pick a few:<br />
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of<br />
Liberia, for her incredible courage,<br />
determination, and foresight<br />
My paternal grandmother, for her love and to<br />
learn about her life<br />
Louise Bourgeous, for insights about her<br />
work and artmaking process<br />
Website is humankinetics.org<br />
How to participate<br />
Follow on social media:<br />
Facebook Yana Schnitzler Human Kinetics<br />
Instagram yanaschnitzlerhumankinetics<br />
If you love art, check out our Women In Art series<br />
<br />
<strong>What</strong> is the best advice you ever received?<br />
I find the best - and the hardest! - advice is:<br />
“Trust yourself.” We live in a culture that<br />
overemphasizes a rational view of things. The<br />
mind that reasons and has explanations while<br />
our gut feeling says the opposite but cannot<br />
“prove” its point. That’s why it’s such a challenge<br />
as we have to trust. Trust that kind of deeper<br />
sense of knowing.<br />
<strong>What</strong> do you need to make more room in<br />
your life for?<br />
More fun stuff, such as random handstands at<br />
the beach. I used to love to do them as a kid, and<br />
though they’ve gotten bad I still enjoy doing<br />
them. Or ice skating in the winter.<br />
If you could learn anything new, what<br />
would it be?<br />
I’d like to learn to weave. There’s something<br />
about working with physical material that I find<br />
very satisfying, that tactile experience of it. I<br />
would also love to learn trapeze or kiteboarding.
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AURA OF WOMAN<br />
Neeta is our Aura of Woman Imagery this week.<br />
This series from April Rose More Photography celebrates<br />
women who embrace their unique Aura of Woman and share it with the world.<br />
<br />
View the complete series
Dear Ms Mostly<br />
Ms. Mostly mostly knows it all<br />
and if not, she is on the hunt to<br />
find the answer for you.<br />
Retirement: Is It<br />
The End Of The Line?<br />
Dear Ms Mostly<br />
Well, here I am riding the rails to retirement at<br />
what seems like 200 miles an hour. I am worried<br />
about what is at the end of the line. Having<br />
been a single, career professional all my life, it<br />
has been easy keeping busy while at home for<br />
short periods of time. <strong>Not</strong> so, the future.<br />
Will I soon be relegated to the sofa, catching<br />
up on old episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, listening<br />
to all the political goings-on, all by myself? It<br />
has been easy to not have any hobbies while<br />
dedicating myself to my job.<br />
Many of my friends are business associates.<br />
Some will still be working and others will be off<br />
into their own retirement with their spouses. I<br />
am at a loss for ideas to keep busy and want to<br />
proactively stave off the lonely days and nights I<br />
am half expecting. Any ideas, Ms. Mostly?<br />
<strong>What</strong> now?<br />
Dear WH<strong>AT</strong> NOW,<br />
<strong>You</strong>r future will be largely what you imagine it<br />
to be. Positive visualization does not include old<br />
episodes of Grey's Anatomy so cut that s**t out.<br />
many not-for-profits, community organizations,<br />
and boards need intelligent, experienced<br />
people with time to devote. <strong>You</strong>'ll find you don't<br />
need a paycheque to derive satisfaction from<br />
work and, even better, you'll likely meet other<br />
people with similar life circumstances and will<br />
make new friends who will suit your retired<br />
lifestyle.<br />
Once you start to reach out to organizations<br />
that do things that inspire and motivate you,<br />
there will be fewer lonely days and nights, and,<br />
more likely, you'll find there is simply too much<br />
you can devote yourself to and you actually<br />
need a little break from being busy.<br />
That will be the only time I'll allow you to<br />
wallow on the couch with an old Grey's<br />
Anatomy-fest.<br />
It sounds as if your career kept you busy<br />
enough to avoid hobbies and outside activities<br />
so now is the time to take that well-used and<br />
rich brain of yours and put it to work building<br />
capacity in others and in your community. So
I'm<br />
anxious<br />
fabulousYOUniversity.com
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