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Submitted to Contest #146
TOXIC TRIBE “The years tell us much that the days never know” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody knows enough to be a pessimist, yet negativity and mental illness can be ingrained in the human brain at a very young age; perhaps even before birth. I know this to be true because this happened to me. Mental illness is a genetic factor in my family, and toxic genes causing viruses of the mind started with my maternal great grandmother. Mental health issues in my venomous clan mutated over the...
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