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This reads as a blunt account of self-knowledge arriving in an unexpected way. It can be taken to mean that beneath talk of confidence and acceptance, the deeper wound was fear of failing, and it lands when someone realizes that their resistance is not about other people at all, but about not wanting to fall short.
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