“How much of your life, the life you know, is actually your own? We all do things for others, stretching out limbs like thigmotropic plant clinging to the structure of another to both give and receive life-sustaining supplements. But what do we do for ourselves that we do not do for others?What moments are we robbed of, what people do we give too much to? And when, if ever, are we truly independent?”

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