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Melissa Duge Spiers is an award-winning screenwriter and memoirist. This essay is excerpted from her memoir, "The Glory Whole," which won the Book Pipeline 2021 Unpublished Manuscript Non-Fiction award and is currently in the publishing process (for more info, check out her Instagram @the.glory.whole). Melissa is represented by Dani Segelbaum/The Carol Mann Agency. For more from her, visit her Instagram at @melissadugespiers_writer.