t really me. I lose my individuality when I do things this way, but yet I feel compelled to do these things because others expect it of me, or expect that I will respond in a certain way.

But when I wake up in the morning, I am only me for those first minutes, and those minutes are very important. The reason those minutes mean so much is that there are no demands on me at that time and I can really be me - or be whoever I want to be. I don't have to worry about being a mother, or being a wife, or being any of those things. I can only exist as exactly who I am and want to be and need to be f

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