Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own (1)______, I no longer imagine I can get through a (2)______day, much less all my life, (3)______on my own. Even if I am on (4)______in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has (5)______from cloth woven by others, using (6)______someone else is distributing to my house. (7)______of interdependence is everywhere. We are on this (8)______together. As I was growing up, (9)______. "Make your own way", "Stand on your own two feet", or my mother’s favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: "Now that you’ve made your bed, lie on it!" Total independence is a dominant theme in our culture. I imagine that (10)______. But the teaching was shaped by our cultural images, and instead I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally "independent" and consequently b
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