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With all my knowledge and intuition, I could
never entirely predict you. I can feed the caterpillar
and I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what
hatches, follows its own nature and is beyond me.Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Just as the youngest butterfly is orders of magnitude more developed than even the oldest caterpillar, any Human Adult, even in the earliest post-transition stages, is orders of magnitude more developed than any eyes-closed, fear-based, ego-clad, herdbound juvenile.