Why I Named It Portofino
On a photograph of my grandmother, a harbor she may never have visited, and what it means to believe you deserve beauty.
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Taking Portofino
Every week, Shairí writes a letter. Not a newsletter. A letter — the kind you read slowly, maybe twice. About the stories we carry, the ones we've been afraid to tell, and what becomes possible when we finally do.
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On a photograph of my grandmother, a harbor she may never have visited, and what it means to believe you deserve beauty.
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Why we revise our own histories — and what we lose when we make ourselves the villain of every draft.
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There is a difference between being seen and being known. This letter is about the terrifying, necessary gap between them.
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"The stories we carry are not our burden. They are our inheritance. The question is what we do with them."