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The truth about your family is that everyone is miserable. No one is happy. The truth about your family is that everyone is selfish and that no one cares about anyone else. The truth about your family is that they are dysfunctional and that no one can rely on them to help them.
How sad it must be to have to face the truth about your own family. You need to move out and leave them behind, pretend you grew up in a different family and never knew the real ones.
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