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(B) Other people are occasionally furious with me.

(C) The world is a place where people occasionally become furious with me.

(D) In order to have a place in the world, I'd better avoid making people furious, or else learn how to withstand their fury.

(3) I have a vague memory about feeling nervous and reluctant to go the kindergarten in Kansas City, Kansas. My mother was with me at the time I felt this, and she encouraged me to go. I guess I did go, but I don't remember that part. I have no particular feeling about this memory.

(A) I am cautious about undertaking new ventures.

(B) Other people are encouraging me to undertake new ventures.

(C) The world is a place where new ventures must be undertaken from time to time.

(D) In order to have a place in the world, I must undertake new ventures from time to time.

(4; added 9/5/2010) When we lived on Orville Avenue, I continued to wet my bed at night well beyond the age when most children no longer do this. As a result, my parents put a rubber sheet on my bed, with the regular sheet on top of it. When I discussed this memory with a clinical psychologist in Duluth in the late 1980s, he suggested that such bed-wetting was usually the result of fear. Updated 6/9/2012: Steve Hodges and Suzanne Schlosberg published the article titled "The Real Reason Your Kid Wets the Bed" online in Slate Magazine on March 6, 2012. The authors draw on recent research to suggest that constipation can lead to bed wetting.

(5; added 9/5/2010) When we lived on

Orville Avenue

, my parents attended a teacher-parent conference one evening. After they returned home, my mother used her very loud voice to report angrily to me that my teacher had told them that I was not working up to my ability in school.

(6) I remember my father helping me with math on a number of occasions. We sat at the kitchen table, and he drew on paper and explained things to me. I have no particular feeling in connection with this memory.

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