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I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
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I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.
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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—
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Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?
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Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.
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