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Test for Echo

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I've liked the band Rush since I first heard them on the radio around 1990 and 91.  Radio air waves were the most accessible way to engage with popular and diverse music.  The classic rock stations would play Rush regularly, and I was especially impressed with Tom Sawyer, to begin with.  I was age 14 to 15 then, now in July 2025, I'm 49.  During these years I've listened to Rush sort of on and off, and remain loyal.  The band is one of many interests I hold, let alone musical. Two interesting themes that aged well with their song Test for Echo (T4E) is our human need for mutual affirmation, and the competition for people's attention.  Also, the song has excellent anthemic drumming by "the Professor," lyricist Neil Peart, may he rest in peace. 1. Testing for Echo. Everybody needs an "echo," some affirmation, to know they're not alone. Sometimes that can be life's most precious discovery -- somebody out there who feels the way you do. You ask y...
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Safety of Teens

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Abandoned teens will find undue trouble.  My ex-wife told me during our marriage, credibly at the time, that around the age of 17 or 18 she brought her date over to her parents' apartment while they were away; that they were alone at her invitation, and that he raped her.  The ripple effect of her traumas and of her parents' behaviors needs to stop being pushed onto my teens.  Abandon and parental alienation cause the potential for such abuse and neglect to teens, especially vulnerable young women.  The teens' lives have been in peril, worst since June 30, 2022 when they were manipulated to leave father suddenly, without prior discussion nor true justification.  Many "adults" keep me, the teens' loving father, away and in the dark.  It is not for the teens, then aged 14 and 15, to decide to leave, attempting to push falsehoods, lured by the illusion of material excess.  The teens continue existing under a regime, bullied, coerced, manipulated, seduced ...
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Gaslighting, and Parental Alienation

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