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She decides to call several people. She tells herself she has to talk to
some people. She is worried, and then she is angry at herself for worrying,
for always thinking about herself and for always looking at the world so
darkly. But she doesn’t know how to stop.

She thinks about how her smartness doesn’t
seem to count for much anymore, the way it used to. Her smartness has
counted for less and less as she has grown older.