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If you could change the ending of any book, which one would it be?

Paula by Isabel Allende If you could change the ending of any book, which one would it be? I’ve recently finished rereading Paula by Isabel Allende. It’s a memoir that Isabel Allende wrote while her daughter was in a coma. Allende wrote about the extra ordinary life she’s lived. Like that woman went through a lot of hardships, from being raised by a single mom in 1940s Chile to moving around a…

I wrote this poem in June of 2025. me and cousin Jessica in the 80s compassion and hope appear in a phone call from my primaright before I give in to my hate and angerright before I let my rage control me and make it into a weaponof destructionshe reminds me that this is not who I am and to choose forgivenessand empathy for those who hurts us for they don’t know what they doand I wonder if it…

A scene from the last season of “You” What’s a book, movie, or TV show that you wish you could experience again for the first time? I really wish I could experience watching the show “You” all over again. For a while, I was super obsessed with it and even wrote an essay about relating to the main character “Joe” which I even posted on my blog.  I unpublished it because later on, I found it way…