R43 - We were born to break the doors down

[with_my_teacup]

I have plenty to hide, most of you know that. I hide it in plain sight, some of you know that.

You can ask whatever; I'm game.

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[exnihilo]

I don't think so.

[He has made her happier, has made her calmer in anger and hurt. But he has not made her less afraid. She is afraid of her own flimsiness, that she will fade away here and dissipate like sea foam with no masters to shape her.]

What makes you who you are?

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[with_my_teacup]

More genetics than I thought, but mostly my experience. The constant ingrained message that life's a battle.

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[exnihilo]

[She bites her lip, shakes her head. How to say it.]

I meant...what constitutes you. What parts of you.

[Technically this is not a question. It is a statement about her previous question, and how it was phrased poorly. What is essential to being a person.]

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[with_my_teacup]

I don't know. My instincts still. They shape how I act, memory or no memory. They're the base of me.