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Family myths are cherished by the people who–however unwittingly–have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to me during that last unfortunate phone call was that I had shattered our family’s myth: the myth of a close and tight-knit family in which everyone was in complete agreement about everything, that is, in complete agreement with my father. I had violated one of the tenets of this myth in a way that was unforgivable to him. For that my punishment was to be expelled from the family.
