Mike Jung
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I have all these brilliant, insightful, generous friends in the #kidlit realm and I'm constantly inundated by disbelief that such a thing could possibly be true. It is, though. It's true. It's a startling and dreamlike truth.
01:50 PM - Apr 14, 2023
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Anne Marie Pace
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In response to Mike Jung.
Can I go back in time and tell my fourth grade self that someday I really will have true friends?
05:15 PM - Apr 14, 2023
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Mike Jung
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In response to Anne Marie Pace.
It would have helped, right?
06:18 PM - Apr 14, 2023
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Mike Jung
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In response to Mike Jung.
Last Friday I had lunch with 2 of those friends, and they helped me realize that STEVEN (working title for my #MonsterPictureBook ) is, at its heart, a story about sadness. The process of creating this book is, appropriately enough, provoking tidal waves of a very old and familiar sadness inside me.
01:51 PM - Apr 14, 2023
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Mike Jung
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In response to Mike Jung.
It's a lot, but it's ok, because the old sadness is blended with intense joy in the present, and new hope for the future. I'm letting myself feel the sadness unreservedly, and it's...healing? Because it's inseparable from the new joy and hope? I think so. I'm healing. I'm still capable of that.
01:53 PM - Apr 14, 2023
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