How does one’s particular truth come about? This assuredness that what you know is irrefutable, and your conclusions were inevitable. Bottom line, you know, no one can take that away from you. They may force you to mouth idiotic mumbo jumbo, but they can't change the ultimate truth you carry within you. How you arrived at your truth is a complicated tangle. Mom and Dad, sure, major influence, the ancestors before them, especially those from other cultures. What about the time of year you were born, a warm, green country or a snowbound, windbreak little hamlet, city or suburb, robust or fragile, rich or poor, school, religion? It all adds up, and you're the only one experiencing it. It's your truth.
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