Amelia Reinhard
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Amelia Reinhard
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Clinical studies of such children reveal that a preponderance of them have parents who have related to them in either a helpless and fearful way or a hostile and self-referential one. The children of helpless and fearful parents, in particular, have a very difficult time later in life. Their parents tend to be sweet and fragile, not hostile or
... See moreWe see ourselves as others see us, and when we feel invisible, well, we have a tendency to fall to pieces.
Who shall I curse that I grew up / believing in my mother’s face / or that I lived in fear of potent darkness / wearing my father’s shape / they have both marked me / with their blind and terrible love / and I am lustful now for my own name.
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