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<blockquote>I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . . I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith (2025)<ref>Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50</ref></blockquote>

I~~'m getting old~~, and ~~angry. 2025 calls a lot into question, but wasn't all~~ that ~~actually~~ in ~~question long ago, before~~ my ~~birth~~, ~~as far back as we might take it? We~~'~~ll consider the burden of circumstance, but let's do so,~~ to ~~nourish and to do the work that we believe we were given the possibility to do. That's life, actual life~~, ~~working to do~~ what ~~we were given the possibility to do.~~

Halloween, I decided to call my memoir, Unfinished — A Working Life. Starting it had been difficult. I felt the countdown had begun and worried that my best work still laid fallow in my drawers. With so much wanting attention, I couldn't decide where to begin, or once begun what thread could hold it all together

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 <blockquote>I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . .  I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith  (2025)<ref>Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50</ref></blockquote>
-<p>I'm getting old, and angry. 2025 calls a lot into question, but wasn't all that actually in question long ago, before my birth, as far back as we might take it? We'll consider the burden of circumstance, but let's do so, to nourish and to do the work that we believe we were given the possibility to do. That's life, actual life, working to do what we were given the possibility to do.</p>
+<p>Halloween, I decided to call my memoir, <i>Unfinished — A Working Life</i>. Starting it had been difficult. I felt the countdown had begun and worried that my best work still laid fallow in my drawers. With so much wanting attention, I couldn't decide where to begin, or once begun what thread could hold it all together
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