RA>Hmm, I suppose that could apply to what I was thinking of, which is my
  >tendency to occasionally act out of my negative and childish self in a
  >really obnoxious way (most of the time it just makes me shy and
  >unadventurous).  It is true that everybody has one of those selves hiding
  >out in the closet whether or not they had a traumatic childhood.  Mine
  >was definitely shaped by my childhood.
Sometimes I get obnoxious, too; and bore people with all the statistics
I've managed to accumulate in my life time.  I have this whole supply of
totally irrelevant stats floating around in my head.  I try to keep them
under control -- but -- sometimes ....
RA>It seems to boil down to the question of whether the ability to love and
  >feel empathy is inherited such as the ability to speak is or whether it
  >is inherited and also needs to be stimulated in order to develop.  If it
Well, even speech does not develop if a child is not spoken too.  I
think the ability to love is inherent in all people.  but how much
stimulation it takes to bring out that loving nature probably varies
from person to person.  Some people are born with a great natural
ability to learn languages; and others have little language ability.
Given a language poor environment, the child with great ability will
probably still do very well with speech, whereas the child will little
ability may not learn to speak at all.  I think the same is also true of
love.
                   Sondra
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