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You're on your own kid. There are moments when we feel more alone, of course,

after the divorce, when we head off to school for the first time,

when we strike out on her own, start working for ourselves,

when we do something that people don't understand that engenders criticism.

We realize we're on our own that we have to blow our own nose, as Epitita said, that

we'll have to be our own savior while we can't, as Marxerreelis wrote.

No one but us can solve our problems.

No one but us can manage our emotions.

We only control what we control.

We can only demand the best from ourselves.

But this is not new. You have always been on your own, as Taylor Swift put it, and you

always will be. You can instead let these moments when we feel more alone serve as

reminders that we have the tools to

change that we only get to choose how we react that we evolve into whomever we want to be

because what do you have to lose you are already on your own kid and no one can

take you away from you only you can do that you're

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