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I've never been a fan of building castles in your own countryside. The act of either erecting on the spot or moving into a new territory and putting up walls always felt subversive to your own community or an inherited one. I was naive, I didn't understand why people or groups of people engage in this act. "I'm an open book," is what I'd proclaim while looking off into the distance as if recognizing some idealist paradise of genuine, naked, and open communication just over the horizon.