The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.
I do feel that I__e managed to make something I could maybe call my world_over time_little by little. And when I__ inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I__ a weak person, that I bruise easily, don__ you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It__ like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
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I do feel that I__e managed to make something I could maybe call my world_over time_little by little. And when I__ inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I__ a weak person, that I bruise easily, don__ you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It__ like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
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