It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that womanI was thinking about my own tendencies toward aloneness and I thought I could end up like that woman, with a bird perhaps, or a dogprobably a dog, I know birds are supposed to make good pets but I think theres something creepy about thembut alone with a life that didnt touch or overlap with anyone elses, a sort of hermetically sealed life.

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