long story short

This is the exhale after surviving: long story short, I made it, and I'm good. Haven't you had a stretch so bad you'd only sum it as "anyway, I won in the end"?

It writes "survival" bright and bouncy. Taylor, almost gleeful, tells "what nearly broke me is now just backdrop" relief. You'll want to laugh and start over.

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