“The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.”

— Sabrina Ward Harrison

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself, Introduction (2000)

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