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Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.
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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.
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I've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.
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I steeled myself against laughter I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.
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We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.
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Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
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But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.
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People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while you just hold on to that early impression.
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What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
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He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
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He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.
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