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“Somethings really is wrong with me. And I don’t know what it is.”

Oh Charlie.

I think I know where this is going, and it scares me because at one point I had the same feeling about myself. But on the other hand, Charlie is such a teenager that it is impossible to feel overall anxious about seeing seen. It does make me anxious though, the best books do.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked. I was sitting on the floor of a basement of my first real party between Sam and Patrick, and I remembered that Sam introduced me as her friend to Bob. And I remembered that Patrick had done the same for Brad. And I started to cry. And nobody in that room looked at me weird for doing it. And then I really started to cry.”

“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

“I feel infinite”

“It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”