Originally published: November 29, 2010 | Updated: July 2025 The quote in my Woman’s Diary for the week of November 22, 2010, was from Anaïs Nin: “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anaïs […]
A New World is Born
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