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JMCKUSICK

(4,759 posts) Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:56 AM Oct 2

Good morning accomplished DU family,

I was 30 years old the first time someone told me it was ok to think anything. It was one of the most liberating moments of my life. While that seems hard to believe, when you grow up "lost", you spend so much just trying to survive emotionally, the freedom to think isn't a real priority.
Please give us a day filled with opportunities to free others from their chains with words of encouragement, empowerment, and enrichment. Please let us be open to those very words coming from others to free ourselves.
Love, John