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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ever since the past fall, I’ve been paying attention to my inner dialogue. First of all, it’s bilingual – Finnish and English both feature in a happy chaos. Second, I recognize different personas speaking. Not in a multiple personality [...]

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Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.
Tutko, Thomas
I’ve always been a head person more than a body person. I haven’t really enjoyed sports, or been really happy with my body, or generally paid much attention to what goes on below my neck. Most of my existence [...]

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idiolect
noun
the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life.
(Merriam Webster Online)
Every once in a while I wake up in the morning and manage to go several hours without speaking to anyone. Then the phone rings: *croack* *ahem* “Hello?”. Or I sound like the love child of Marianne Faithfull and James [...]

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