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With Love, and Wafflenugget | 4. Friendship or Contamination?

As I take a break, a memoir excerpt from "With Love, and Wafflenugget"

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Kate Speer
Oct 17, 2025
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For lovely newcomers, I wrote the first part of my memoir, Maura and Me, here on Substack with a chapter a week from 2023 to 2024. It was an incredible honor to be read as I shared the story of my best friend Maura and how our unlikely friendship helped save my life. If you are curious about those years of my life, what serious mental illness really loo…

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