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“How do you console someone who doesn't want to be consoled? Sammy says to do it subtly, but I have never been subtle. If anything, I am obvious: I fill rooms and suffocate people with my presence, skin pressed up on all fall walls until you know nothing but me.”

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Book:Slow Dancing with The Stars
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