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“But what else can a person do except keep trying?”

“And maybe they are all lonely. Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. Maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.”

“But that is how it happens, she realizes. One moment of pretending to be great leads to the next moment of pretending to be great, and ten years later, she realizes she’s spent her entire life just pretending to be great leads.”

“Why did she have to wake up every day just to prove herself if it didn’t seem to matter how often she proved herself?”