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1291
Pair with Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
1 min readApr 10, 2020
“So, tell me everything,” she says.
And for the first time I open up my mind to the enormity of it, and I see a montage of connections and causes and threads of dreams and reflexive reactions and learned behaviors and outcomes that are nobody’s fault, but still real and sometimes happy and painful and more profound than I thought, and I am floored. I don’t know when to start. I don’t know where to end. I don’t know what goes in the middle or if there even is a middle.
“Well, Switzerland was founded in 1291,” I say.