Many children of divorce experience a kind of exile. Although you are told your home has not shrunk, but expanded, it rarely feels that way. Not only has the place you used to think of as home changed many of its rituals and rules, but it has altered how you are viewed and treated. At first there is a sense of the newcomers not really knowing you, not knowing all your preferences or aversions and having to explain so many backstories from your past that clarify the present. Then this graduates to not understanding you, your possibilities and limitations, where you need more guidance and where you need less. Finally, this culminates in an indifference, or even exploitation, because step-relatives never did have that kind of bond in which your triumphs and suffering are theirs, also.
As the left topples statues, renames institutions, mocks patriotic symbol and rituals, and rewrites history, the American identity is being subject to a similar phenomenon.
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