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““Wanting to be a movie star…answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.””

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Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

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We live in a hell of opinions.

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Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

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