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Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs. Fixing things as an adult that hurt you as a child. Maybe it doesn’t make sense at a surface level, but the subconscious marches to its own beat. === If there are infinite worlds, how do I find the one that is uniquely, specifically mine? === All the tiny, seemingly insignificant details upon which my world hangs. === If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me? === “You know what the definition of insanity is?” “What?” “Doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.” === I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.