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You Can't Really Accurately Diagnose Someone, I Think. Or I've Been Told That.

It Creates Community When You Talk About Private Things And You Can Find Other People That Have The Same Things. Otherwise, I Don't Know, I Felt Very Lonely With Some Of The Issues That I Had Or History That I Had. And When I Shared About It, I Found That Others Had It, Too.

I Am A Spy In The House Of Me. I Report Back From The Front Lines Of The Battle That Is Me. I Am Somewhat Nonplused By The Event That Is My Life.

Now It's Dedicated To My Grandparents And To Both Of My Parents. The First Book Was Dedicated To My Mother So I Thought Maybe It Was My Father's Turn, But Then I Realized That Everyone Would Jump On That And Assume I'd Had Some Falling Out With My Mother, Which Is Absolutely Not The Case.

I Rarely Think About My Childhood. It's A Slippery Thing I Can't Keep Hold Of For Long - It Slithers Out Of My Grasp. And A Lot Of The Time I Remember What Was Missing Instead Of What Was There. I Am A Chronicler Of Absence.