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yes, even though I have my one episode of real, deliberate deception, I depend on the trust of my loved ones. I presume it even, and find it intolerable to be treated otherwise because I go to great lengths to remain available and transparent with the people who are close to me - as is appropriate, of course, depending on whether you are my child, my lover, my parent, sibling, etc. etc. Therefore this idea of my 'privacy' is something vague and illusive. It exists until it doesn't anymore, and that's fine.
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I think that coming out of a ten year marriage that was full of secrets and deception of a heartbreakingly enormous magnitude has shaped my attitude toward privacy today.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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