It was as if I had to explain why I wasn't 'normal.

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And I went to extraordinary efforts to try to explain what I thought had been done in the ways that I thought were most favorable to them.

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How could I explain to you that words no longer meant what they once had meant, that they no longer meant anything at all?

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"It used to be that my Mom had no idea what kind of law I was interested in, no matter how many times I tried to explain it, " she says.

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But I actually felt that it would be a mistake to walk into my house and explain the sequence of events that had led me to spend the night in the garage attic.

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