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To: Neocon who wrote (2850)	8/4/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: mark silvers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Neo- I can personally vouch for the fact that your assumption is not necessarily true in all cases. <<perpetual detachment from the events around him.... >> I was 10 years old when my father passed away at the age of 36 from a heart attack. I was extremely close with my father, he was and in some ways still remains, the center of my world. His death was devastating to me. Putting me in a state of depression(at times severe)and therapy for more years than I care to admit. The day after died, I went to the school ground to see my friends at recess(I lived only a few blocks from school) I remember a female classmate asking me why I wasn't crying, and further explaining that if her father had just died, she would be crying for "years and years". That simple comment has stayed with me for my whole life. It bothered me greatly for a very long time. when I was younger, I actually wondered if she could be right, and if there might be something wrong with me. She was passing judgment on the outward appearances of my grief, without knowing(but probably adding to) the depths of despair that I was already beginning to plumb. FWIW, my younger brother never cried. Mark