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The Carousel Stop

I want to start by telling you something about permission.

For years, I believed permission came from the outside - from achievements, from degrees, from other people's approval. I was a girl who learned to be invisible while trying to be extraordinary. I thought if I just achieved enough, climbed high enough, I'd finally have permission to take up space.

But then something happened that changed everything. A breakup. A song. A city on the other side of the world.

And I realized I'd been asking the wrong question my entire life.

What if permission was never something to be earned? What if it was something I had to give myself?

This is the story of how I learned that. And how a carousel taught me what I'd been missing the whole time.

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