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Nice  girlism was strong in my family; white, southern, protestant, my mother had three sisters, my father was the youngest of a large family who pretty much ran wild.  Southerners frow up saying Ma'am and Sir.  I, too, wanted to go to mecdical school.  My parents insisted that I should become a nurse to see if I liked medicine; then I could continue on to my MD.  In spite of the fact that my IQ places me in the top 2% I was always not good enough.  Failed freshman chem so that I was safely off the MD track.  I was the oldest of three girls.  It has taken me years to realize that my mother suppressed my competitiveness as it mad her feel less than adequate if I excelled.  I'm still "nice" at 75, everybody's favorite Mom, or Buddy.  I'm afraid that I raised my daughtr to be like me.

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