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For a while, I wasn’t able to see. I spent portions of my life feeling extremely tired and fatigued. In the back of my mind, I had assumed that someone would make the effort to help me, but no one ever did. Was it due to the fact that no one cared or was there a biological process in the human brain that causes people to act this way? Was it due to a person’s natural biology or was it the environment? These questions sparked a curiosity within me that I never knew I had. My parents were both busy, middle class working people that only wanted to build a better life for their daughter. Even though they were constantly occupied, they still had this expectation for me to be a successful doctor, lawyer, or another job that would support the

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