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Our women's obsession with wigs a classic case of self-hate

You can’t be your own liberator if you don’t love yourself.  You can’t free yourself from your own demons if you hate the person that you are. In fact, no one – and nothing – can free, or liberate, you if you are consumed by the evil within you. 

Self-hate and own-loathing are the most damnable cancers that eat you inside out.  They turn you into an empty shell – a shadow of a dead person walking. Those who condemn themselves through anger protest against self.

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