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this is liberating exactly because i have historically attracted high maintenance "friends" by keeping my secrets and being at the service of all- like a blank canvas that anyone could smear their images on.

im basically low maintenance and would sooner be put in 6 point restraint than act out in front of others.
I say if people know or come to know so be it and bring it on. I've been taken apart and reconfigured by the best of them and im still walking the earth.

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I very much like how you stated this and can find much in common with my own experience and behavior.