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Entering A Season of Refining

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Robert R. Fike
Feb 13, 2023
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I was at an impasse last June. I had gained all the weight I lost when I took up running during the pandemic (to outrun stress and covid). I had chronic stomach pain, regardless of whatever meal I was eating. I felt like a passenger, and the driver wasn’t telling me where we were going. I was burning out, fizzling out like a distant star.

Then, Avi was …

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