When your party favors don't do your party any favors.

He asked me if I was here alone, I told him, in the city center, to look around, we were surrounded by people. But did you come here alone? I took the bus, I told him, it was full of people. Did you know any of them, though? If I’m honest I think I might have. I locked eyes with an infant, he must have been less than six months. We spoke for what seemed like days in a combination of silly faces. It was a wealth of misgivings, this language, more pleasant than I ever imagined it would be.

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