First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

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Who Gets the Valentines Day Chocolate?

February 10, 2014 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks to everyone who took the time to respond to our Contest. I found your comments invigorating and empowering, and I admit to travel envy. Our winner not only has a birthday on Valentines Day, but an opportunity for transformation and a spirit that leaps off the page. I’m hoping the gift of chocolate will be the perfect accompaniment to SM’s momentous week.

SM writes:
Valentine’s Day is my birthday. Always despised having to feel some tinge of a reminder of my solitude on the day of my birth — year after year. But this year the focus will definitely be different. For the first time in more than a year of job searching, I’ll finally be interviewing for a position in a part of the country that I’ve always wanted to live. My interview is only a few days before my birthday. After a very long time, it will be my first real opportunity to leave my current deeply unsatisfying life/work situation, transform my life completely, and head towards a real sense of fulfillment and promise. So…. my gift to myself will be: Best. Job. Interview. Ever.

Card by Rock Scissor Paper

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