anchor.diff:  
   And now I am alone again.
   
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   [quote, The Arctic Suicides]
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   "Some people, they are raised with a lot of love," she explains, "but some people are not. And these people who didn't get love in their childhood, when they meet a partner, they try to hold onto him like they own him. They think that this one person, they can only love him and he is the only one who will ever love them. And when they break up, the person feels like their life is over." Atsa thinks for a moment. "Maybe I am giving them a little love."
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   It is a standard piece of advice you will hear many times when you are single, and especially after a break-up or a divorce, that you must somehow become accustomed to being alone before you can proceed to find love. "You need to get comfortable just being yourself for a while."
   
  
positive.code: 
  And when that need is deprived, or warped, or broken, and we stop believing that we can or should be loved, that is when we begin to walk a dark path. We cut ourselves off, from our emotions, from our humanity, from our fellow humans. We hurt ourselves. We hurt others. Sometimes, we can't even go on living. 
  
  
  [quote, The Arctic Suicides]
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negative.code: Number three read simply _Love._
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  I have found it difficult to describe to someone what it is even like to be so long without love. People do not believe it. 
  
  