she tunes out and looks around the room at the couples and families eating their dinners. They seem happy enough. But are they? Is this what she’s supposed to want and strive for? Dressing in matching costumes, chitchatting about nothing, married with children, perpetuating this mind-numbingly meaningless nightmare, this endless loop of absurdity? These people are all breathing miracles of DNA in bodies that took 13.8 billion years and an impossibly unique and unbroken chain of events to be here, and this is how they choose to spend the days and nights of their precious existence before being
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