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Spring 2026 Newsletter
This is an excerpt from Laura’s quarterly newsletter, “Some Type of Magic.” Subscribe to read the full content.
Hello, fellow writers and readers.
Do you remember what it was like to be a child? You had an inner life—thoughts, daydreams, things you wondered about, emotions that you didn’t always share with adults.