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if you have a link to your old journal, you might be able to recover it through the WayBack machine
https://web.archive.org/
Entering a URL will pull up a calendar marked with the instances that page was randomly scanned and archived. You can often pull up other pages once you find the first one from the archived page itself. You can also submit current URLs for the Wayback Machine to save.
Not all pages have been archived, but a great many have and its possible you could recover some of your journal.
I find I use this resource a lot for old recipes from blogs that have been abandoned or other favorite pages that have been deleted. Good ol' Wayback has them cached for me.

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