Bright Lights, Big City

self-and-identity

• You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are.

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• The feeling you'd always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, watching yourself in the world.

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• You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy. All these voices waving their arms and screaming.

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grief

• 'Career?' you said. 'Since when is modeling a fucking career?' She said she had been unhappy. Now she was happy.

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• You hung up and wept. Sexual Abandonment. He called again to announce the car and joint checking account were yours.

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• For those last hours you might never have really known her. The last few nights she was not sleeping at all, so you talked.

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