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CHAPTER<br >The Wish to Be Saved<br > I am lying alone on the third floor of our house with a bad<br >bout of the flu, trying to keel) my illness from the others. The<br >room feels large and cold, and as the hours t~ass, strangely inhos-<br >[~itable. I begin to remember myself as a little girl, small, vul-<br >nerable, helpless. By the time night falls I am utterly miserable,<br >not so sick with flu as with anxiety. "What am I doing here, so<br >solitary, so unattached, so... floating?" I ask myself. How<br >strange to be so disturbed, cut off from family, from my busy,<br >demanding life . . . disconnected...<br > A break occurs in this stream of thought, and I recognize: I<br >am always alone. Here, without warning, is the truth I spend<br >so much energy avoiding. I hate being alone. I d like to live,<br >marsupialized, within the skin of another. More than air and<br >energy and life itself, what I want is to be safe, warm, taken<br >care of. This, I m startled to find, is nothing new. It has been<br >there, a part of me, for a long time.<br > Since that day spent in bed I ve learned that there are other<br >women like me, thousands upon thousands of us who grew up<br >13<br ><br >
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The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024