Womankind

Journaling your future

It’d be a macabre experience to read your own obituary before you were dead, as happened to the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway, who survived two plane crashes in two days before discovering that in the meantime news reporters had been covering his tragic ‘death’. Apparently, the obituaries provided Hemingway with much reading pleasure over breakfast (with champagne).

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