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Echoes of How You Were Loved

The Decoded | April 2025 | By Lisanne       9.4   How does someone recognise love if they’re unfamiliar to it? For those who were loved as a baby,…

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Love, hidden till found.

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Birds Don’t Need A ‘Flying for Dummies’ Book Either

Ever seen a bird, freshly born and out of its nest, chirping alongside its hungry siblings, fighting over a worm—while its parents hand him a copy of Flying for Dummies?No?

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The Comfort of Uncertainty

The Decoded | March 2025 | By Lisanne

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Breaking Free

The Decoded | March 2025 | By Lisanne ​     26.3 Every moment you feel bad about not tackling something is another moment you are not tackling it.  …

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Study The Old Masters

The Decoded | No. 9

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Childhood Story

The Decoded | No. 7 | By Lisanne ​   15.5 It matters not how angry the man. How charged with punishments his soul. Rarely do we see what we…

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Glass ceiling

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Faith and education

The Decoded | No. 3

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The man in the arena

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