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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

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“Right now I felt like a person learning that a surgeon had left a pair of scissors inside her during a operation.”

Description Simile Alexandra Kleeman

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“There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,”

Terrible Living Being Alive Alexandra Kleeman

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“Wanting things was a substitute for wanting people, one of the best possible substitutes.”

Lonely Consumerism Wanting

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“I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.”

Sad Forgotten Absence Alexandra Kleeman

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“These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.”

Identity Pressure Self Discovery Finding Yourself Cult Alexandra Kleeman

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“Standing there small among the boxes of Kandy Kakes that rose like brownish cartoon cliffs around him, he resembled the videos I'd seen of sea lions floating angelically among the kelp, black bodies filmed from below, their shapes cut out in bright sunlight, bodies mistakable for those of a human being. I felt the memory of a shadowy arm around me, a watcher again, sitting there on the couch with my boyfriend, watching the animals become prey. Somewhere there were giant whales feeding on creatures too small to see, pressing them against fronds of baleen with a tongue the size of a sedan. There were polar bears killing seals, tearing ovoid chunks from out of their smooth, round bellies. In the surrounding vastness of the warehouse, I heard something scratching against the concrete floor and knew there were rats here, scraping a thin film of nutrient from the dry packaged matter that surrounded them. Life was everywhere, inescapable, imperative.”

Life Beautiful Nature Animals Ending Descriptive Food Chain Last Lines Alexandra Kleeman The Circle Of Life

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“There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.”

Emotions Descriptive Alexandra Kleeman Intimations Old Movies

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“Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.”

Happiness Responsibility Alexandra Kleeman

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“I did have a friend,' I said. 'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.”

Friendship Friend Alexandra Kleeman Unhealthy Relationship

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“Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?”

Relationships Dependency Codependency Suffocating Unhealthy Relationships Alexandra Kleeman

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“I remembered from movies and TV that a human being striking a window could cause it to shatter, but the glass was too strong or I was too weak. My body didn't do much anymore when I put it to things. I didn't even make much noise pounding my fist against the glass: the ones that turned to look dismissed me almost before they had swiveled their heads. I might have been a painting of a hysterical female, paused in motion and screaming decoratively. But my throat was going raw, and my hands hurt dully.”

Description Alexandra Kleeman Hysterical Female

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