I hesitate a moment and then say, "Well, I think you may be overly bright, overworked and were probably recently, well, overturned—shall we say?—by a person who's not very healthy." When he doesn't say anything but simply stares at me, I add, "And, you know, when you hang out a lot with somebody who's not well, after a while you start thinking like them, particularly if you think you're in love with them. You want to understand them. Gain their trust, their innermost thoughts. So later, when you come up for air and relate to the real world, you feel like you're not well in the head, either,
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