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Or on the floor of my room. Or wherever. I’m the one who waits for something that never comes.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":32,"quote_text":33,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":21,"author":34,"source":35,"quote_tag":36,"commentary":9},2955246,"But then I think about where knowing somebody has gotten me: nowhere. No. someplace worse than nowhere, because when you’re nowhere I’m pretty sure you feel nothing.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":38,"quote_text":39,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":21,"author":40,"source":41,"quote_tag":42,"commentary":9},2955237,"Guys don’t go for me. Period. I don’t distract them. They don’t sneak glances in my direction. They don’t think of me when I’m not standing right in front of them. I’m scenery. 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