Maria Peregolise

In National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, when Clark can’t get the lights to work, his daughter says defensively, “He worked really hard, Grandpa.”

Grandpa replies, “So do washing machines.”

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What takes so long to figure this out?

In simplified terms, Boiled-Frog-Syndrome, followed by intellectual denial and emotional numbing. As stated previously, at some point, I allowed it to dawn on me, that none of this was true. It was a gradual process in which, as that dawn rose, so did a great storm of hurt and rage. As analyzed by Lifton (1991), and referenced by Janoff-Bulman (1992), the mind requires increments of understanding to assimilate such devastation. It cannot assimilate this volume of input all at once.

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