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It's A Deep And All But Certain Truth About Narcissistic Personalities That To Meet Them Is To Love Them, But To Know Them Well Is To Find Them Unbearable. Confidence Quickly Curdles Into Arrogance; Smarts Turn To Smugness, Charm Turns To Smarm.

A Close Family Member Once Offered His Opinion That I Exhibit The Phone Manners Of A Goat, Then Promptly Withdrew The Charge - Out Of Fairness To Goats.

Spending $1 For A Brand New House Would Feel Very, Very Good. Spending $1,000 For A Ham Sandwich Would Feel Very, Very Bad. Spending $19,000 For A Small Family Car Would Feel, Well, More Or Less Right. But As With Physical Pain, Fiscal Pain Can Depend On The Individual, And Everyone Has A Different Threshold.

Science Has Yet To Isolate The Godiva Chocolate Or Prada Gene, But That Doesn't Mean Your Weakness For Pricey Swag Isn't Woven Into Your Dna. According To A New Study Of Identical Twins, It's Less Tv Ads Or Labor Day Sales That Make You Buy The Things You Do Than The Tastes And Temperaments That Are Already Part Of You At Birth.

There's A Universe Inside Your Head - A Place Of Pictures And Passions, Of Songs And Sorrows. It's Everything You Are - And It's An Utter Mystery.