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Old Nov 29, 2010, 12:53 PM
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I doubt if my mother was ever diagnosed, but I think narcissism could well be one of her characteristics. Not that labels such as that are necessarily very useful. They tend, at least in my mind, to be judgements, without much of an attempt to understand why a person has become what they have become.
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