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    Its manipulation, but it comes from a place of needing care and a fear that if exaggerations are not made that care will not come or will come and not stay.

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        That’s what insecure attachment is my dude and that’s also why vampire stories are so compelling. They play on the basic fear that ones need for care will be entrapping and lead to further abuse.