It is hard to explain to people who have never had to hide a key element of themselves how corrosive it is. It is not simply that you do not allow others -- your family, your friends, your neighbors -- to truly know you. It is also that you give up on knowing yourself. And you give up on that which makes you most human: your capacity to give and accept love.
-- Roberta Kaplan, Then Comes Marriage, p. 27
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