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18/01/2025
Anyone else have a life-changing experience as you hit 40? Or maybe it was another milestone birthday that rocked your world?…
I remember crawling up to that turning point, looking around and thinking, What the hell happened? To me?
But it wasn’t just me. All my friends seemed to be saying and thinking the same thing, What the hell happened to US?
Funny part is, looking back now, my 40s have been my favourite decade ever. I couldn’t see it at the time, but things were just about to get juicy in the most exciting, unimaginable ways.
Maybe, like Taylor Swift, you’re coming up on your fourth decade. (I know, I know, 1989, and all that—but time flies as you approach your 4-0s.)
Maybe you’re at a different crossroads in your life—a job you don’t love. A relationship that you feel stuck in. Do I stay or do I go?
It’s these kinds of choices that my characters Carmen and Ally face in my book Again, Only More Like You. And how they navigate the breakups and shakeups still brings a smile to my face and tears to my eyes—even a million drafts, revisions and iterations later.
There is a Japanese art called Kintsugi that involves repairing broken objects using gold or lacquer, which leaves a gold seam where the cracks were, giving the item a new, more refined aspect.
In the end, I think that’s what this book is really all about. The beauty in the broken things. Falling apart and putting yourself back together. Again, only more like you.
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