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COLD COMFORT

IT’S HUMAN NATURE TO try and pin responsibility for our miseries just about anywhere other than our own chests.

Neglectful parents.

Fluoridated water.

The positioning of the stars at the moment we were born.

Gluten.

Even the way our planet spins in outer space.

Then there are the genuine, uncontrollable circumstances that affect us, such as Seasonal Affective Disorder. Otherwise known by the entirely

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