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When you were young, you acted by instinct and a lot of those instincts were good. People always said the opposite. But the decisions of youth were unclouded by factors such as self-knowledge or cynicism or logic.

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Cora doubted that flashing indicated a crush. She'd always assumed it indicated mental illness.

It felt fine, they both said, though how did it really feel? It felt like the world should have ended and it hadn't. It felt like coming down from Everest and checking your bank balance. It felt like seeing the situation for what it was, in a flash, and then having to pretend for the rest of your life that you hadn't.