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I have thoughts.

"The best film of the year ends at nine o'clock. What to do at ten?"

"Exhilaration comes from naming the unnamable and hearing it named."

"All that stress and anxiety was for nothing. Your fellow townsmen will have something to talk about for the next few days. Your neighbors will profess shock and enjoy it."

"I was proud if my exhaustion, as if the darkness circling my eyes was proof of my adulthood. Proof that I could hold my own, no longer just a son or grandson but an I"

"It annoyed me, how easily she was able to pry me away from myself."

"The sweetness we deny ourselves because the world is wailing."

"It shouldn't have been that easy to un-become myself." ..... "here I was: an alternate version of myself in an alternate future from the one I'd been planning for years."

"And, somehow, the fact that I hadn't seen her became all the more alluring. This place so coursing and vibrant that wonders would flash past whether you were watching or not."

"People don't just happen. We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, "I am no longer yours."".