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Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Age: 24
Born: 2000
Born: January 1
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Charleston
South Carolina
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Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . What is? You know. Being liked. I started to cry. I couldn't help it.
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Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.
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I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.
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It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.
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And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.
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I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.
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Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.
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You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.
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It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
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And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.
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She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.
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I’d promised myself that I’d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.
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I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.
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I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.
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When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
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Why was it that jam always coated me so?
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But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot to say.
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So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.
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