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Feel like you’re the mad max of literature/emotions through all of this. Really admire all you’ve been able to do 💕💕

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mad max of emotions is good hehe. thank you J, really good to see you

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Jul 18Liked by Blake Butler

Blake, you’ve written a beautiful book (this too is a beautiful post) and truly done right by your past self who “suffered in struggle” ❤️

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I loved your book Blake. It took courage to write and courage to deal with the after effects. Hat’s off, Brother. Thanks for the post and I’m looking forward to hearing it read by you as soon as my old wounds heal.

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thank you my friend - i appreciate you

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Jul 18Liked by Blake Butler

This is beautiful. Thank you! I found your book “Molly” to be deeply profound and moving. I don’t notice the language as much as feel the energy of a human trying to convey something that is almost beyond words. (I myself avoid writing my feelings because I so often experience the words as not quite accessing the subtlety, the nuance. I prefer to speak so I can you gesture and vocal tone which, for me, add so much to communication). But that’s not what I came on here to say. What I want to convey to you, Blake, is that your book is phenomenal, your story transformational. How I interpreted what happened is that because of your love for Molly, you transformed in a way that few of us get to do in our lifetime. She was so broken, but also so deeply lovable, she gave you this gift of love and release. I don’t interpret your story, or her’s, as a tragedy. It’s incredibly sad of course, but she offered you something, something that you allowed yourself to receive. I’m still integrating it all. But fuck the haters; they simply don’t get it, they can’t get it because of their limited scope. They latch onto the superficial and can’t join the spiritual transformation. Keep doing your thing. Keep staying true to yourself. Keep loving deeply and powerfully. Keep acknowledging where you fuck up. Keep trusting your own growth and evolution. Im glad to be a witness.

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very much appreciate your thoughts, Lily, tysm. i agree with you about the gifts <3

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Gorgeous. Thank you.

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thank you sabrina!

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❤️

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<<<333

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Jul 19Liked by Blake Butler

Just finished the book today. I love it, I'm grateful that you created it and shared it with the world. Thank you for writing this about recording the audiobook.

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thank you austin

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Beautiful, Blake, and am so grateful that that brilliant, devastating book will find an even larger audience now (much smarter and more discerning than the hacks and lemons that ambushed you online).

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Jul 18Liked by Blake Butler

thanks for this

"felt like trying to put out fires with a flamethrower" is a great line

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