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#2 - Diabetes and dreams

#2 - Diabetes and dreams

How do you deal with something you didn't even know existed?

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Nico Olivieri
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June 2005. It’s hot, but that’s not why I’m sweating. I’m still in the car, the torn open envelope on my lap mirrors the state of my soul.

What the hell am I going to do now?

I couldn’t know this yet, but I was experiencing the first in a series of what I now call “envelope moments”. Everything seems fine, then you receive a letter or a call, and your lif…

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