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The Closing of the Hoop
The closing of the hoop is an American Indian idea of maturity. When a Boy becomes a man or a girl becomes a woman is the moment when the circle is complete and at that point You're no longer vulnerable to someone else's opinion of you changing your opinion of yourself. "How I see myself that definitely wasn't closed yet Well, it probably closes in degrees, right? Right because I mean I you said something like yeah, you know a Year or two ago people someone told me I was dumb"