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The emotionally healthiest people I've ever met who are in the public eye are the ones who are capable, figuratively speaking, of extending a toe in front of them and scratching a line in the dirt. They know how to say, "We can shake hands across this line, we can talk across this line, and we can express gratitude to each other across this line, but I wouldn't ask you to babysit my children, and you can't sleep on my couch." It's not apathy, it's not superiority, and it's not disdain. It's a recognition of the physics of personal connection. There is only so much energy. There is only so much to give, and there is only so much you can turn yourself inside out for so many people before something runs low, or runs out.
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