My wife made me a toasted sandwich and ate hers sitting opposite me. Now and then she looked at me. That sentence sounds simple. It is not simple. In the morning I went to a meeting. I listened. In other people’s stories I saw myself — not as a mirror for comparison, but as a map. That is how the same mechanism used to work. That is what the system looked like from inside. I took the toilet seat in to be fixed. The man said it could be ready for tomorrow. On the way back I saw a beautiful flower. I bought it for Bella. She thanked me. We did
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