![]() ![]() Jasmine is being raised by parents with low emotional intelligence. How could a ten-year-old know this? Why would she feel this way? The answer is as simple as it is complicated: By all accounts, she is a very lucky child.īut despite Jasmine’s luck, and even though her parents love her, even at age ten she knows, deep down, that she is alone in this world. She has friends at school and plays soccer. She goes to school every day and does her homework every afternoon. They work hard, and Jasmine has a house, food, clothing, and toys. She will spend the next twenty years wishing that she had different parents, and feeling guilty about it.Īfter all, her parents are basically good people. ![]() ![]() Jasmine doesn’t know it, but this is only the beginning of her struggle. They then take her back to their home, where she feels loved, nurtured, and cared for… In her mind she’s reliving the fantasy that’s helped her to get her through her life so far: her father answers the doorbell and a kind, well-dressed couple explains to him that Jasmine was accidentally sent home with the wrong family at birth and that she actually belongs to them. “It could happen,” she whispers quietly to herself. Ten-year-old Jasmine lies alone on her bed, glad to be sequestered behind the closed doors of her room. ![]()
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