Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
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