If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is … - Sara Maitland

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Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

Sara Maitland

If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone. ”

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