I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts.
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
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She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
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