What's got my attention this week?

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Olympic athlete Kelly Holmes came out as gay this week, aged 52. She said she could "finally breathe"

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• My Best Friend's Wedding is 25! Here's why it's genius (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
• The lost art of letter writing. (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
• Anne Helen Petersen makes a very good case for taking a lunch hour (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
• Why it's time to rewrite the stories you tell about yourself (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
• Confessions of a luxury beach resort refusenik (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (by one of my all-time favourite novelists, Lauren Groff!)
• This essay about the insidious nature of "the silent treatment" (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)is really thought-provoking.