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I often find myself wondering how exhausting it would be to live any type of double life.

If you're like me in any fashion, the life you have

right now is complicated, busy, and filled to the brim with enough events to keep you occupied.

However, time and time again, I read a story, see a news report, or watch a show about an individual

who appeared to be one person on the outside, but was someone

else in the shadows.

In a fictional sense, you look at a popular TV show like Dexter, a man who by day was helping

solve crimes for Miami Metro, and then he would moonlight as a serial killer who only

murdered people, according to a certain code.

This idea seems so outlandish for many reasons.

But hey, I'm a fan of that show.

But just think about it.

How truly exhausting would that be, to be two different people?

It seems fairly unrealistic,

but unfortunately, we know that people can actually maintain these facades.

Look at someone like Dennis Rader or Gary Ridgeway.

Both men appeared to be one person to their loved ones,

but to their victims, they were an entirely different person.

Some would say that they were their true self with the latter.

There are many more people who have lived double lives to a less extreme extent,

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