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A conversation with Katie Hawkins-Gaar Last fall, Katie Hawkins-Gaar, freelance writer, journalism consultant and author of the newsletter “My Sweet Dumb Brain,” felt lost. She said she always tries to be honest about how she’s feeling in her weekly newsletter, where she shares personal accounts of grief, community and moving through life. But with a doomful news cycle and an incessant desire…
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