Jerold Kreisman

insistence, before the end of her junior year. She quit school and began working as a receptionist, but her employer recognized her intelligence and promoted her to more responsible jobs

Who she is (and what she does) today determines her status, with little regard to what has come before. She

the pre-borderline child often grows up feeling inauthentic due to various environmental circumstances—suffering physical or sexual abuse or being forced to adopt an adult’s role while still a child or to parent his own sick parent