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My Summer of YES

My Summer of YES

AKA an introvert attempting things

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Sep 11, 2023
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I moved to Montreal on July 1st after living in Halifax, Nova Scotia for 3 years. I found Halifax a difficult place to live. It’s a cliquey kinda town, where people have these life long friendships and they’re not really looking to recruit new people to their circle. It’s a tough nut to crack, especially as a child-free woman in her 40s. There don’t seem to be a whole load of other me’s hanging around there. The result was me spending the majority of my time there feeling lonely, isolated and lacking connection.

So, with this move, I was determined to do everything differently.

I decided, upon arrival, I was just going to say yes to everything.

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