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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Shouldn
Trade
Alive
Able

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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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