She had experienced in all their profundity the two feelings that are the foundation of life: love and humiliation. The source of that shame was a story far bigger than the one about love. We discover who we really are through others, which is why we are better at understanding other people than ourselves. It’s just like being a doctor; no one can peer into themselves to diagnose their own illnesses, so we must leave that to someone else. And that is precisely why I said that we are all, in fact, other people’s stories. Yet, while no one can tell their own story, if another tells it, it will
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