"Feeling sorry, as I trust you will sadly learn, is something of a habit of mine. I am always apologizing, afraid that I have offended someone. This is because I am a person who wishes to be liked all the time. Even by hateful people. Even by historical figures I will never meet. Even by strangers and children and, naturally, by you."

Funny, sad, sweet. And true. John Hodgman on being an only child.

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    child until I was almost 12, long enough for this behavior to be firmly implanted, and to persist to this day.
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