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Experiment with infinite loving. You’ve already broken all the finite thinking rules. Stay infinite in this realm. Keep loving and find the boundaries of where it runs out - if it does. Maybe it never does. And you just discover that love truly is infinite. Most important is to find a meaning that makes sense to you and recognize that this meaning might change as you go through different stages of your life.To read this book is to understand how a life is built. In dark, there is light. Everything in Marsha Linehan’s life and remarkable memoir uncovers the dark—the hell of the unhappy self and the hell of inadequate help—and brings us into the light, with humor and detail in describing her grappling and growth, and her courage and vision of how to create a treatment for even the most unhappy of us.” —Amy Bloom, New York Timesbestselling author of White Houses

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