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Chapter 0305
Mathieu ForestHi everyone, this is Mathieu. I know I haven’t left one of these in so long, but as MBTA inches towards the 250K view milestone I feel it’s necessary to. I’m on holiday now, going through a phase of rediscovering myself and falling in love with life again. Its made me sort of a hermit, left me reflecting on a lot of things such as the fact that as I write these words, I’m in the same room I was in when I started this book, where I hit publish. Where I never, ever imagined that it would be this well received. (CONTINUED IN COMMENTS.)
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