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I told my friend Sharon that I'm tired of being at war with this unrelenting pain.

  Me:  Perhaps I should try to befriend it. 

  SS:   No no no! No befriending! But you do need to treat it with more respect.

  Me:  Submit to its limitations?

  SS:   Treat it like the white tiger that mauled the magician in Las Vegas. At any moment it can attack.