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Why We Should Stop Trying to ‘Go It Alone'

Why We Should Stop Trying to ‘Go It Alone'

By Maria Shriver
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I share my experience because perhaps, like me, asking for help and receiving it isn't your forte. Yet, I know I've never accomplished anything without it.

As I sat and watched the news come out of London last night, I experienced a range of emotions. I felt shocked. I felt angry. I felt fearful. I felt disbelief that this was happening yet again to our friends and our allies in London. Disbelief that this is now our world … the world we all live in.

But then I took a deep breath and reminded myself that there are far more good people in the world than bad, and that these incidents can bring out the best in all of us. So, let us not give in to the fear that these terrorists are hoping we give into. Let us not hide, run or separate ourselves from our friends. Let us band together.

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