And with this we catch a glimpse of what evil is up to, using shame as its proxy. It wants us to tell our stories in such a way that we are the sole responsible party for what we feel; it wants us to live in isolation rather than in relationship. I feel shame, then, because I am shameful. I sense this because there is something wrong with me. It does not strike me that the reason I feel what I do is because of something that has happened to me as a function of my being in relationship with someone else. Despite my knowing as a fact that someone has said or done something to me that has evoked
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