Different is good, he said, shifting in his chair that was actually too small for him and creaking a lot from new weight. Some people try their whole lives to be different and never achieve it in any significant way. Some people make it look effortless. I frowned some more though Mark didn’t seem to notice and continued to inspect my empty room aloud. His words started to echo so I stopped paying attention to them. Who really wanted to be different? I wondered. And to be treated differently for things about them that couldn’t be changed. Most people who were different just wanted to be the
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