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Fighting Inertia

Fighting Inertia

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Debbie Russell
May 31, 2022
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“When did you get skinny?”

I will never forget those five words hitting me like a punch to the face, as I stood in the doorway to Mike Freeman’s office. It was early 2017. I was fifty-one years old. As I absorbed this greeting, I wondered if I had heard Mike correctly. I lost my focus. How does one respond? In the moment, I had to shake off my discomfort…

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