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Nineteen Truths and One Beguiling Lie about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian

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Nineteen Truths and One Beguiling Lie about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian
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It is an odd thing, looking back on your life, trying to recognize in the mirror of memory the people you used to be, finding them strangers: the person who kissed your first kiss, the person who drank your last drink, the person who had your best idea, the person who made your worst mistake, the person who over and over mistook fear for love, the person who thought orange was a good idea. Somehow, you have to grow arms long enough to wrap them around all those people and a heart wide enough to

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