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Love love love. Your metamorphosis is beautiful. It’s all I ever wanted.

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I am sighing with pleasure.

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Tina, many YOUR flame burn for at least 1200 years <3

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Nov 8, 2023Liked by Tina Rowley

Thank you for this mental breath.

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Wonderful! But I can feel the "awayuki" beginning to melt in the hot gaze of our admiration.

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Love, love, love this

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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Tina Rowley

I am! Thank you! xox

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Nov 14, 2023Liked by Tina Rowley

It took getting a cold and staying home from work to get around to this--that's how I got the cold--I was too busy even for this, and bam! there it was (the cold from overdoing), just like the "good old days".

Thank you for bravely shaping silence around a thought and sharing it. xox

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L O V E. I’m impressed! And relaxed. Usually, I’m neither. Well done.

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I just LOVE this... I can't even tell you. It reminds me of a Murakami visual poetry experiment that's specifically making new use of Substack as a form. Huzzah!

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Yes. Just, so much yes

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Nov 8, 2023Liked by Tina Rowley

This format, these pages, is what I wish books looked like. Or maybe they kind of do look like that. Either way, I love them and their content. But what I wanted to say was that I put myself out there in the world in video and it's hard. I almost always have a reaction to it afterward that is a little like crumpling. It feels crappy and I want to hide and protect myself. And when I'm feeling really bad about it, sad, regretful, ashamed, whatever, I think of you. You who puts yourself out here over and over again in the most amazing, raw, beautiful ways. My "exposures" have been cured and packaged, but yours are (or maybe just feel) much closer to the living heart. I commend you for your bravery, Tina.

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I love this! It feels like it set my cells aright. I can't believe the story about the 1200 year old flame! How wondrous! I'm so glad I was never put in charge of keeping that alive. Also, side note, the picture of the plain white rectangle is the one I unconsciously chose to expand. I think that must mean something. Thank you for this beautiful offering!

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oof right out the gate with that house made of sh. I'm loving the new typset format, it's so evocative and shapes the text so much more than just litteraly

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This is as thrilling and awakening as diving into fresh, cold snow. I love it!

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That seems right. Well done.

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