“It can be said that deeply traumatized children grow into adults who live in the minefield of their own extreme emotions. Plus ca change.”

—  Antonella Gambotto-Burke , book The Pure Weight of the Heart

Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 326.

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