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I could feel something on my palm. Something wet. I brought my right palm in front of my face. I found blood. I began gasping for air.

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I didn’t understand how I could feel like both an insider and outsider. I didn’t understand how I could fit in everywhere seamlessly, yet at the same time, nowhere at all.

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I become aggressively social when I’m out with a lot of people. I don’t want to seem nervous so I start talking and sometimes can’t stop because if I do, my momentum will crash and I’ll feel myself panicking.

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I’m so used to being disliked, alienated and rejected to some degree that I can’t help but be skeptical of your vast love for me.

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Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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You told me that I could tell you anything, that I could share any problems with you. But you didn’t tell me that there will be drunken devils in my own college.

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“When we met, he had a beard. After about a month, he shaved it and I realized underneath that beard he looks like a prepubescent boy. Like…I didn’t sign up to date Benjamin Button.”

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“I tried to steal her dog because we raised him together. I sneaked into the house and tried to grab him but she caught me.”