Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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"He said to me, 'You know how distressed small children get if they're lost and can't find their mother and how they keep on searching?  Well, I suspect it's the same feeling that adults have when a loved one dies, they keep on searching too.  I think ti's the same instinct that starts in infancy and evolves throughout life as people grow up, and becomes part of adult love.'"

- John Bowlby to his son.  Quoted in the forward to The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds, p.vii

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