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the room is on fire

Halfway and Just Getting Started

birthday reflections + writing updates

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azia archer
Feb 27, 2026
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Found this in Patina on Saturday. Too good not to share.

I’m writing to you from the other side of midlife!

That’s right, Wednesday was my birthday, and I am officially forty years and two days old! Granted, the women in my family tend to live into their late nineties and even past one hundred, so I might be here awhile. (Truthfully, it’s a bit of a toss-…

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