Contradicta
Feelings are not the threat, or shouldn't be. To the extent that at times I feel gratitude and affection, I should expect to feel outrage and antipathy at other times. Indifference is the true threat, the outcome of deadening.
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Someone responds, I respond. If you ignore me, how can I fail, eventually, to ignore you? Nevertheless, each of us is aware the other is out there, somewhere.