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From a corner of the world, I sit. I watch. You. Them. Walk. Talk. “SURPRISE!” she screams across the hallway to her friend, instead surprising me, eating my cheese-its between classes. It’s a fantastic world in San Francisco in October. Cell Phone Huggers. We can’t afford mass transportation, or food, just talking on $300 cell phones. Bobby says they’re the end of social interaction as he puts on his Ipod headphones and skateboards away. [In high school I learned to sleep with my eyes open, so why isn’t it enough in college just to show up?] Her shirt has music notes covering it like that girl with bars from “Konstantine” I see at concerts has tattooed on her wrists. I find that when I finally get brave enough to ask questions I’m just met with answers that result in more questions I’m not brave enough yet to ask. She says she always thought God was just something we made up to blame our mistakes on. My personal view seems much more optimistic. He lights up under a no smoking sign, puffing smoke from his lungs to fill the air around him. He watches me from outside watching him from inside. Watching me watching him watching me…

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From a corner of the world, I sit. I watch. You. Them. Walk. Talk. “SURPRISE!” she screams across the hallway to her friend, instead surprising me, eating my cheese-its between classes. It’s a fantastic world in San Francisco in October. Cell Phone Huggers. We can’t afford mass transportation, or food, just talking on $300 cell phones. Bobby says they’re the end of social interaction as he puts on his Ipod headphones and skateboards away. [In high school I learned to sleep with my eyes open, so why isn’t it enough in college just to show up?] Her shirt has music notes covering it like that girl with bars from “Konstantine” I see at concerts has tattooed on her wrists. I find that when I finally get brave enough to ask questions I’m just met with answers that result in more questions I’m not brave enough yet to ask. She says she always thought God was just something we made up to blame our mistakes on. My personal view seems much more optimistic. He lights up under a no smoking sign, puffing smoke from his lungs to fill the air around him. He watches me from outside watching him from inside. Watching me watching him watching me…