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My mom died when I was seven.

My dad went to work when I was 17, never came back.

He passed on a shipping disaster in England

an only child being orphaned at 17 that was obviously quite pivotal in ways that I didn't

fully understand but it nonetheless what I've recognized in

hindsight what it did give me was the glimpse of the isolation. There's that

feeling of separation which is what most people experience. They feel

disconnected from life which is why life is all about survival.

And if I, my experience for myself is separate, then I have to fill in the blank, right?

Be pretty, be smart, be wealthy.

So my experience of separation was very visceral because it was literal in terms of like I am by

myself.

But then in hindsight I was like, wow, I think much of it was so that I could get to the place of really

having such a profound compassion for every human being's ego,

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