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"There are little signs everywhere in the library now that say BREATHE! BREATHE! How did everyone get so good at this breathing thing? I feel like it all happened while I was away."

"Applause may be a way for us to make our weak
hands sound thunderous."

gosh i feel like i'm not reading this fast enough- 😵‍💫🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️

"Anytime I think I am a semidecent person, I remember this story someone told me once about her ex-husband. [...] He never came home when he said he would, [...] he had a rule that if anyone asked him for help he would pause to see what that person needed. [...] Sometimes it was money, sometimes food; once a man needed a belt and he gave him his. [...] They broke up because he was a mean drunk, but still.

"Sometimes now with students there are these moments when it feels like a sudden cold wind blew through. So lately I've been checking that my sweater is buttoned right, that my T-shirt isn't too weird. I'm like a woman carrying a full cup into a room of strangers, trying not to spill it."

"One morning a student tells me failure is not an option and is angered when I laugh. I assume a cheerful manner. I tell her, Hey, me too, I used to have plans! Biggish ones, medium at least. She stares at me. Sorry? she says. After she goes, I slip into the bathroom, make sure I don't have lipstick on my teeth."

"When we worked together years ago, she always told me I had no game. She said this because allegedly you are not supposed to cut to the chase and ask your fellow dater to tell you about the time he was most soul-crushingly lonely. Allegedly this is not a best practice. But it makes a date so much less boring. Do you, did you, will you? I just want to know."

*i didn't mean my phone being stolen

"She tells me that her phone was stolen and she's been using a really old one instead. She won't get the newest model, she's decided. "So I just go at a slower pace. I know I'm missing things because I can't respond quickly enough to what people say or show me, but that's okay. It gives me more time to think," she says."

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MY DREAM