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IS TEMPERAMENT DESTINY?

Nature, Nurture, and the Orchid

Hypothesis

Some people are more certain of

everything than I am of anything.

—ROBERT RUBIN, In an Uncertain

World

ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO

It’s 2:00 a.m., I can’t sleep, and I want

to die.

I’m not normally the suicidal type,

but this is the night before a big speech,

and my mind races with horrifying

what-if propositions. What if my mouth

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