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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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