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Be Ye Perfect

In college, I had a jogging partner, a compassionate, deep-thinking woman with a generous smile. 

She also had a really messy apartment. Dishes piled up, laundry strewn about, houseplants gasping their last desperate breath. (Thank you, Anne Lamott.) For years, I thought my friend was phlegmatic.

But one day, when I visited, I found her drawing a beautiful, precise work of art.,,

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