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Wonderful ❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you!!

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Sitting at the breakfast table cheering for you, Kate! This piece is great. I can feel the pride and the way this really must have been so validating for you. 💜

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Thank you!!!!

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You’re the bomb Kate Speer!

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WE LOVE YOU!

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I can feel the joy through my phone screen!! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks for continuing to share your story, Kate!

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Thank you for continuing to read it! beyond grateful!

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Loved this! 💜

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Thank you!!!

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Wow! Cheers to you, Kate Speer!

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Thank you!!! so much!

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Woooooooo! What a beautiful chapter! I can easily feel your joy through your incredible words 💜 what a triumph.

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thank you!!! So much, Michele. Writing this one brought me to grateful tears. What a TRUE gift to be alive.

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You are everything you felt that day and so much more!! You are changing the world!! One word at a time, my friend!!!

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Thank you, love!!!

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Amazing!! So proud of you!! Every week, I feel like I am right there with you.

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ahh the best compliment!! Thank you!!

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I absolutely loved this piece!! Joyful is how I felt. Your words always instill in me your emotions. I feel them. I literally cheered for you Kate Speer!

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Thank you!! So much!

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Dang Kate! I am swooped up with the excitement here in this piece and I have a big smile on my face! You go Kate! So often people have only one way of seeing a person. They can't open their eyes to the growth and change that every person can accomplish. I've been there, albeit in a very different way. I bet so many others have too.

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Thank you!! so much!

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Kate! What an incredible story of owning your truth and the power that comes with that! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your journey with us. You are one brave woman, Kate Speer. 🩷

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Thank you!!! so grateful to have you here!!!

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Great chapter! As always, after reading your pieces, I’m dabbing my eyes, but this time because of the joy I feel. 😊

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Thank you!!! And I’m so glad! Honestly so grateful to finally have a happy chapter to share 💜💜😘

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This is everything, tried not to happy cry as I read this as my students read their independent reading books, " I was a whole human being. I was Kate Speer and even if they didn’t like me, I finally did" just everything. I call them my Wonderful Humans, so they never forget this

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I could literally feel your joy. Powerful validation of being!

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Beautiful! ❤️❤️❤️

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