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It's been a while since I gave you a hug, hasn't it?
I'm not at all surprised at your revelation about not having had a mother. In my experience, I always felt that half of me was missing... like there was a connection lost... another part of me that I needed. My therapist thought it may have been the part of me that I had lost in the process of shutting down my feelings in order to not feel pain. With your revelation, I'm thinking that what I've been missing is that part of my mother that I never got. The lack of validation and
protection. The part that tells you, "you are ok, you are right, it's not your fault."
Darrel, I'm feeling bad that maybe you might "miss out" by being the "asker." Something tells me that you'll gain from the answers anyway... but is that going to do it for you? Where is your validation in this? Talk to me...
<font color=blue>This above all: To thine own self be true. --Shakespeare</font color=blue>
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Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.