I thought I posted to this already. Goodness, I can be such a blonde sometimes. ~slowly licks at the chocolate off the candy as I compose myself~

Quote Originally Posted by Mad
She absorbs the needs of others and finds comfort and purpose within them
I think what you said here, Mr. Mad, Sir, is exactly why O is discarded so often. It is draining (no pun intended, but double entendre welcome) to be the focus of and source for such need. If the others had not stepped back away from her, she would have used them up as completely as she was used, just in a highly different and concentrated form.

(Why did that last part make me think of dishwashing liquid? )

Not so much a flaw of O's as it is an intensity of being that is difficult for others to sustain? Just my thoughts.

tessa