Tammy Andreycak was that person and she realized she had done something wrong and at 42 years old (at the time) and a single parent, she needed to come clean.

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Reading the literature, she realized that many patients suffered something called borderline personality disorder, in which people lack any ability to control everyday emotions.

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"Outside the window, I saw cops running around, I saw students running and I realized something was going on, " she said.

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And as I followed her, in this way, past the flower gardens, I realized that her movements were similar to mine, that she, too, was trying to protect something fragile, something that might fall and shatter into pieces, and that needed thus to be led toward a place where it could settle gently, something that she could not touch but could only guide with her gestures: the moon.

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