Echoed at 3 and 24

My niece has beenechoing and copyingeverything lately. She copieswords fromupset teens on TV-"My life, my family noone cares about my life!"-when she isupset andBounces across the roomin joy joy joywith words fromLilo and Stitch on her lips. But she's 3, andso it's normal for herat that age to echoecho echo echowords. I can't find the wordsto say everything andso I send her, him copied wordsof my selfdoubt- "Fast as You Canrun free yourself from me"-and cite, cite, recite the wordsfrom songssaying ILove "Something", "I WantYou, you so bad"bubbling the beatles andFiona and Adele and raging Rise Against As I"Pulled on thesebootstraps so hardthat they broke." at24, it's a pathology.

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