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Most of your life will happen in the gray spaces between bliss and heartbreak

Laura Dern writes to her teenage daughter

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Shaun Usher
Mar 19, 2025
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Huge thanks to Laura Dern for allowing the following letter to feature in the book, Letters of Note: Mothers. And thanks to the late, great Helen McCrory for reading Dern’s letter for the audiobook. I’ve embedded that below.

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