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Go Hard to Go Easy

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But it was also worth it because of a piece of advice I received — Anders would tell us again and again: “Go hard to go easy.”

For those who know me, it may shock them that I once spent 14 days in the wilderness, purifying water from streams, almost getting frostbite, and yes, shitting in the woods. I was never cut out to be a camping person. I love nature, quiet, waking and sleeping with the sun, and bright, clear stars, but I also love my heels and a nightly bath. I went to a boarding school for two years in New Mexico. It was part of a collection of international boarding high schools (the one that birthed the IB, in fact), but the only US campus was in NM. This initially struck me as odd, but this was apparently s

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