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Powerful post Darya - I love your innate strength, determination and knowledge that you can become what you most want to be. It’s very inspirational and you have many more years of achieving more and doing more ahead of you ❤️

Enjoy your break from the virtual world, the real world can be a joyous place to be especially when not filtered through a phone screen. See you mid October.

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Thank you so much for your warm words, Tanya! ❤️

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I love this! Zirka is my daughter's middle name (Star in Ukrainian). I always tell her to shoot for the moon like that.

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Thank you! Such a meaningful middle name!

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You're doing a lot of good in this world, which is more than can be said for most of us or russia in particular. They want you to feel insignificant and powerless. Remember that they're full of *bleeeeeep* and are probably impacted way more than they let on (or will let on to the mafia boss at the top), which we see every time Ukraine do an attack on Crimea. Then the smoke rising is "just a detector drill" or "all drones were shot down", when, when military installations are hit. Good that you take time off the hellscape that is social media!

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Thank you, Michael!

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If each one of us plays our part, together, what we do will not be insignificant. Lovely to hear about your dreams, and that you've achieved many of them. Not many achieve that.

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Thank you!

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Darya, you have a rare talent for intuitively expressing your feelings. I hope you continue doing this for the rest of your life. Thank you for sharing.

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Thank you, Bob!

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