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I generally feel that we should give people we’re close to or care about … far more benefit of the doubt … what’s referred to as leeway … than we might otherwise be inclined to under other circumstances. This is a crucial aspect of...

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“Of course, the actual problem is the same thing that’s been going on your entire life: you’re 19 kinds of original awesome in a small package, and this causes catastrophic confusion, wrath, lust, terror, and sudden public defecation anomalies...

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“One day I received a letter. It was addressed to Shattered Mirror. No actual address. No stamp. No postmark. I thought to myself: “This is the most accurately addressed letter in human history!” Because this is what it’s like to be born. To...

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Some idiot with road rage: “I will make your life a living hell!” Me: “Thanks for the upgrade!”

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“I mean, when I really think about it, it would have been preferable to encounter a bear that killed and ate me, rather than the 12 years of agony visited on me when, after declaring her undying love for me… she straight up ghosted me after our first...

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Every tree that’s at least as old as you has a ring for every year in your life as if they are all libraries in which every meaningful moment in your existence is recorded in a living being…