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5. I totally saw myself as a "fifth business" when I read his book. I wasn't an actor in my own life at

Fri Jan 6, 2012, 08:13 PM

Jan 2012

the time. I was a doormat. I had learned helplessness. I should read it again because I haven't since the end of high school.

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