I’m Looking Forward to the Part Where My Inner Strength Kicks In

They say that this experience will make us better people — but right now, I’m a mess

Corinne Purtill
Forge
Published in
4 min readMar 17, 2020

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Last night I was texting with a friend who is also a working parent about school closures and this strange new world in which we now find ourselves. She shared something lovely that another friend had sent her, and…

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Corinne Purtill
Forge
Writer for

Journalist with words at Time, Quartz, and elsewhere. Author of Ghosts in the Forest, a Kindle Single.