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Selves and others.
Boundaries are fine; borders are problems; walls are weak.
You and I are not one.
Yet I am part of you and you are part of me.
It is okay to hate yourself a little.
Just hate everyone else a little more.
Dependence, independence.
You are that part of me upon whom I depend for my sense of independence.
Be quiet!
You don’t know me. You don’t even know yourself.
Treat your neighbor as you would treat yourself?
I hope not! Few can withstand that kind of abuse.
Obverse.
Othering is the other side of Selfing.
An other in Taiwan.
I wonder how I would have been had I been raised where my parents were raised. Yet I would not be “me” without this American-ish life.
The “wannabe” is misnamed.
They want to possess the other far more than they want to be them.
Art of Aphorism 
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