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She looked up again and met his eyes, eyes she used to love staring into.

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So love me with everything you have. Love me and my muchness even if it’s too much for you.”

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Tao Lin’s ‘Taipei’ will be released by Vintage on June 4, 2013.

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Then, Lauren began to talk, and the camera turned to her. I can’t recall what she said, but it was good, it was appropriate. She transformed for a brief moment into a public figure – someone saying something relevant for a national news audience.

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We knew the house by the smoke. We knew the house from high school. We did not need to look at the coat-hangered address swinging from a tree.

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The following is an excerpt taken from “Vertigo,” an essay found in I Love Charts: The Book, available now for pre-order.