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Burnout and me

Keep going, my friend

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Tiffany Philippou
Aug 05, 2020
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I’m walking through the desert and I’ve been walking for a long time, longer than expected. I’ve climbed countless hills to get to this point. My phone tells me that the water I desperately crave is nearby. But it’s the desert and so my phone reception is dodgy and it turns out that the water is further away than I first thought. I’m approaching a hill …

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