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On finding way back ✨ + a very special personal share

on taking a break to move forward

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Margo Gontar
Feb 05, 2025
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When The Big War came - that’s how we call the war russia started against us in February 2022 - , I stopped writing music.

I was sure I lost it, whatever it was, that makes you write songs. That makes you even want to.

It all felt empty. Shallow.

Now I think, maybe, it was one of the first gifts of war /if to even consider that war has gifts/: stripping …

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