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What if replica mom was in your life for ten years before someone told you? I suspect you'd have a brief moment of shock and betrayal, and a few days/weeks later continue on as if nothing happened. (at least with respect to love for replica mom--i imagine you'll struggle with other issues forever)

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I don't imagine you would get over such a shock or love them even near as much as you used to. That's practically a traumatic event, and would lead you to distrust everything else in your reality.

We can look to people who have been adopted and how they feel about the situation as examples, a lot of people will continue to yearn for knowing who their biological parents are. It creates almost two forms of love, not lesser just different.

Unless we get replica births!

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