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““...underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe; why? And underneath that, something else: once an asswipe, always an asswipe.””

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Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

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“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.”

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