end to a the penultimate year

"Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet."

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

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I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you. --Frida Kahlo