Having been reared in a family that thrived on secrets, I am no stranger to denial. If the lie can be sustained, why bother with the truth? Let's pretend everything is wonderful. Such a rejection of unpleasant reality might be mistaken for optimism, but denial is more sinister than that. Regularly ignoring truth infects all involved with an insidious loss of equilibrium. Like looking through the wrong prescription of eye glasses, denial leaves some participants, especially the unwilling ones, always on the brink of nausea, straining to make sense of the distorted view.
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An elegant sufficiency there.
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