Marya Hornbacher, Waiting
[ID text: We gather up damaging values over time, and we hold on to them for a reason. At one time or another, these values served us. That they no longer do is a hard fact to absorb. When we have been damaged ourselves, we develop a moral structure of self-preservation. When we have been left, we leave. When we have been raged at, we rage. When we have been used, we use others. When we have been through pain—any degree of it—we will go to insane lengths to avoid feeling pain ever again, and we live in fear of feeling at all. end ID]
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