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Maybe you haven't dealt with it, but you don't have to deal with it on her terms. You can deal with as much as you need to for a while, then revisit it and deal with it some more. You don't have to deal with it all in one shot. Tell her that you've dealt with it enough for now and that you will bring it up again when you need to or she can tell you if she thinks it is significantly impairing progress in another area. She should not dictate what you work on, though she obviously has a stake in it.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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