You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
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What good were real feelings anyway?
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Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
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There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.
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