it's incredibly funny that the pre-war architect of Japanese foreign policy Yosuke Matsuoka was partly raised in Portland, Oregon, graduated from the University of Oregon, and claimed his experiences there gave him a deep understanding of the American psyche.

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a long-running conversation I have with my mother is that she can't grasp why people would be estranged from their family and I always reply, "you are very lucky that you cannot grasp this."

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It's always a "shock" to narcissistic people. I guarantee they've been told very clearly and repeatedly exactly what the problem is, likely for years, but their reaction will still be "I was blindsided! This came out of nowhere!"

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The other category of coverage is *extremely* implausible first-person accounts from estranged parents. According to this woman, her son cut her off after she was mildly rude to his fiance's family a single time. There's no way this is the entire story. www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationship...

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Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

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