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Card #c365IR // #c365Synthesis

While your soul is full of mad ghosts, your clown is your true self, the chaos and the clarity.

— In our words · Source: Motherclown (Harriet Alida Lye)

[Use when]

Use when someone says the "real self" is only the private one.

[Why it matters]

Performance persona is treated as more honest than the haunted interior.

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