She’d been in such a hurry, but she can no longer entirely remember why. Had she known then what she does now—that it would all come to matter so little; and also that she wasn’t as weird as she’d thought, that there had surely been potential there for friendship, for community, for something other than utilitarian loneliness—she may have lingered longer, enjoyed her schooling instead of simply trying to get through it unnoticed. But of course if she hadn’t, everything would be different; if she’d had a more socially fruitful time in college, she may not have moved back to Chicago, almost
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