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I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn__ love me. But this must be faced_I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things_or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you__l drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower_and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I__l loose you_I keep losing people.
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I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn__ love me. But this must be faced_I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things_or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you__l drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower_and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I__l loose you_I keep losing people.

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