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Why family obligations can derail life dreams

My best friend from high school became a doctor like we both planned but I dropped out sophomore year when my dad got sick and sometimes I wonder if I'm even the same person anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Crisis can redirect our trajectory so completely that we lose touch with who we were meant to become.

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