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She Decided to Say "I Love You"
A conscious choice to speak love aloud — and what happened when she did
Joann · United States
Joann made a conscious decision to start saying "I love you."
Out loud.
To the people in her life.
It sounds simple.
It was not.
What followed surprised her.
Her story is about the small act of speaking love into the living world.
About the unexpected ways it changed her relationships.
About the people who responded with their own words.
And about the ones who did not — and what that taught her too.
Joann's story is a reminder that the words we withhold are sometimes the ones that matter most.
“The words we withhold are sometimes the ones that matter most.”
— Joann
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