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I lost both my parents when I was in high school, and I can't say that I understand this letter at all. Maybe I'm not the right kind of orphan or something.
It's funny, I was thinking recently about what, if anything, distinguishes my approach to relationships from people who did not lose parents when young. The one thing I could think of is that I have a tendency to walk away from relationships or be very apathetic about keeping in touch with people after I've moved on in life. I thought that maybe because I got used to losing people early on, it was easier to dismiss people from my life. Or maybe I'm just an asshole, but it's a theory.
In any event, I just celebrated 9 years of marriage last week, and I don't believe that I'm yearning for some special trapeze type of love. I'm good. So, perhaps people just shouldn't generalize.
