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[quote=Anonymous]I think we can move on while not being fully healed. I am so grateful for my present life with my wonderful husband and kids but sometimes I can still kind of go off on a tangent thinking about the past, sometimes in a ptsd way. One thing that helps me rationally is the knowledge that in the slightly deeper human past —before 1950 or so— pretty much everyone endured these traumas of siblings, parents and others dying young in awful ways. Emotionally humans are built to handle it. Although sometimes that way of thinking has the opposite effect, precisely because in modern America it feels so unusual/unfair when our peers seems insulated and protected somehow. Mine was a public tragedy/scandal that made my grieving family a pariah state and I still struggle with that — being so hurt and destroyed and getting laughed at and shunned at the same time. I remind myself that it motivated me to kick a$$ in school, attend HYP and give myself another shot at happiness. Otherwise I might have been all too content with mediocrity. My kids might not get into Harvard but it is soooo not worth having my kind of, um, “narrative.”[/quote]

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