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tavalon

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16. It's fascinating in a horrifying way

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #12)

Wed May 8, 2013, 01:10 PM

May 2013

to watch them turn into people with borderline personalities right before your eyes. Borderline is a term I wish the DSM would replace with about nine other descriptors but it doesn't look like they are so I guess we're stuck with it. But, yeah, normally giving people who become addicts turn so selfish and so manipulative. It's awful.

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