The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood. . . [abusive people] don't think that there is anything … - Gary Chapman

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Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

Gary Chapman

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood. . . [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

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