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I sit here by myself
And you know I love it
You know I don’t want someone
To come pay a visit
I want to be by myself
I came in this world alone
Me myself I

— Joan Armatrading

If you have a suspicion that, all your life, you have been misunderstood, mis-marked, underestimated, mis-valued, disadvantaged — if it seem to you that the persistent, unheady state of whelmnitude that you feel has characterised your adult life cannot be explained except as the product of some malign force that is working against you,