A mechanism or tactic · 1900 · Sport
The coach
An adult with authority over a child for years, who is remembered partly by how they made them feel at nine.
A bond that shapes adult attachment patterns decades later, entirely outside anything the parasocial literature studies. Most people's template for one-sided attachment is a coach and they have never been asked about it.
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