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📩 Letter #48: Consumption vs. creation - by Ali Montag

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It matters.

Dear Kate, It’s Tuesday, four weeks since I’ve moved into a new home. The amount of money we’ve spent is astonishing: A new mattress, a new comforter, new sheets. A dining table, dining chairs, placemats. A Costco membership. Groceries from Costco to put on the dining table. Adult life is expensive. It’s thrilling, how nice it all is. We walk our subdivision’s wooded trails and listen to chickens cluck. We touch the wet noses of dogs through the fence. We sip chamomile tea on the back porch and watch the sunset. It’s a pleasure to create a new life, fresh and lovely. In the beginning, you…

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