As yet another year is loaded onto our backs, what is it that you have gained/learned/not learned from it?

As yet another year is loaded onto our backs, what is it that you have gained/learned/not learned from it?
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Losses keep recurring and new pain echoes past trauma. (It wasn’t the best of years.)
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