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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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