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Old Jul 19, 2011, 03:56 AM
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Basically, you learn to depend on yourself. You learn to survive even if you don't have any always-wise parent figure you can depend on. You learn (or can learn) to be able to analyze what a T (or other person) may be missing, and to examine how you react to that.

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Thanks for this!
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