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For most of my life, asking for help felt like admitting the whole thing might collapse, so I rarely did. I raised three kids in a two-bedroom rental and paid for it the only way I knew how: writing. Grant proposals, hospital newsletters, the careful kind of sentences that persuade strangers to open their wallets for someone else.
I drafted everything in pencil first, on yellow legal pads I bought twelve at a time from
