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The notes we wish we had been handed.
No one handed us a map. We have made the climbs anyway, some of them twice, a few the long way around, and we would rather the next ones in the family start with something to go on.
From Wu is the family's notebook, kept at the house. It holds what we are learning about growing up, deciding, and living, written for the kids to read at twenty-five and left open to anyone a few steps behind.
These are notes from a little further up the same trail. No one here is at the summit and no one claims a special view. We have just walked a stretch of it, and we can tell you where the bridge was washed out and where the climb was worth it. Take what is useful and leave the rest.
Some pieces are short reflections, the kind you write to the kids. Some are longer essays that argue something. A few are just stories, told for their own sake. Each is written in one voice, but they belong to the house. Some are public; many stay private, the kind of thing you write to understand it, not to share it.
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