With every answer I become more like the question.
Madness string 1456
Don't stick the knife in the socket. Don't lick the flagpole. Don't fork the process. Except now that you've been told not to, you'll have to go off and do it.
It eviscerates you, doesn't it. I was fourteen when mine screamed at me that she wished I'd been aborted, after having years of being blamed for her miscarriage when I was two years old. Knowing that your mother feels that way about you leaves a void in your soul that nothing can ever fill.