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  1. Julia Phillips _ Disappearing Earth

    Everyone looked better at a distance. Everyone sounded sweetest when you did not have to hear them talk too long.
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  2. Julia Phillips _ Disappearing Earth

    You believe that you keep yourself safe, she thought. You lock up your mind and guard your reactions so nobody, not an interrogator or a parent or a friend, will break in. You earn a graduate degree and a good position. You keep your savings in foreign currency and you pay your bills on time. When your colleagues ask you about your home life, you don't answer. You work harder. You exercise. Your clothing flatters. You keep the edge of your affection sharp, a knife, so that those near you know how to handle it carefully. You think you established some protection and then you discover that you endangered yourself to everyone you ever met.
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