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There is an excerpt from the play Fires in the Mirror, by Anna Deavere Smith, that seems particularly relevant to the topic of attachment. It reads:
Identity…. it's psychic sense of placeIt's a way of knowing I'm not that rock or tree?I'm this other living creature over here?And it's a way of knowing that no matter where I put myselfthat I am not necessarily what's around me.I am part of my surroundingsand I become separate from themand it's being able to make those differentiations clearlythat lets us have an identity