Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a brav…

Andrew Solomon
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. ✨ Andrew Solomon (2014). Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, p.13, Simon and Schuster
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