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  1. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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  2. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    Then I thought of how my life at Ault was a series of interactions and avoidance of interactions in which I pretended not to mind that I was almost always by myself. I could not last for long this way, certainly not for the next three years; I'd been at Ault only seven months, and already, my loneliness felt physically exhausting.
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  3. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    Sure, I believed the worst of myself but - not really. I was always waiting to be proven wrong.
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  4. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    I often messed up with people, it was true, but it rarely happened because I was reading them wrong; it was because I got nervous, or because I could see too clearly that I was not what they wanted. And, in fact, it was in falling short that I truly excelled.
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  5. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitation... I spent those times hiding. Most of the other girls propped open their doors for visitation, but we kept ours shut.
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  6. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you when the teachers think you're one of the smart, responsible ones, that glow that shines brighter every time you raise your hand in class to say the perfect thing, or you run out of room in a blue book during an exam and have to ask for a second one.
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  7. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    I cried because I knew for certain that I was leaving home, and abruptly, I did not know if it was such a good idea- I realized that I, like my parents, had never believed I'd actually go."
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  8. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting.
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  9. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    No, we were still in the same room, both of us having to breathe and speak in the aftermath of her wink.
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  10. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    She came down to my dorm that night, knocking on the door around nine o'clock. Martha was at the library, and I was eating graham crackers and reading 'Glamour'. She didn't wait for me to open the door but turned the knob herself and stepped inside. Seeing her in the threshold was both surprising and perfectly natural - since I'd left her classroom, my head had been pretty much continuously buzzing with pieces of my conversation, and her presence felt merely like the physical manifestation of what I'd already been imagining."I'm not interrupting, am I?" she said.I stopped chewing. "No.""Here's what I want." I could feel the energy coming off her body - she'd had an idea, she'd decided something, she'd walked briskly through the cold air across campus - and how it contrasted with my own inertia, my bad posture, the crumbs dusting the front of my shirt. I sat up straighter."I want you to cut my hair, " she said. "I'll give you a grade for it. And that's how you can make up the paper. Whatever grade I give you for the haircut replaces the F".I looked at her and felt suddenly, extremely tired. "How's that for a deal?" she said.
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  11. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    She came down to my dorm that night, knocking on the door around nine o'clock. Martha was at the library, and I was eating graham crackers and reading 'Glamour'. She didn't wait for me to open the door but turned the knob herself and stepped inside. Seeing her in the threshold was both surprising and perfectly natural - since I'd left her classroom, my head had been pretty much continuously buzzing with pieces of my conversation, and her presence felt merely like the physical manifestation of what I'd already been imagining."I'm not onterrupting, am I?" she said.I stopped chewing. "No.""Here's what I want." I could feel the energy coming off her body - she'd had an idea, she'd decided something, she'd walked briskly through the cold air across campus - and how it contrasted with my own inertia, my bad posture, the crumbs dusting the front of my shirt. I sat up straighter."I want you to cut my hair, " she said. "I'll give you a grade for it. And that's how you can make up the paper. Whatever grade I give you for the haircut replaces the F".I looked at her and felt suddenly, extremely tired. "How's that for a deal?" she said.
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  12. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    ...though as secrets went, this wasn't great. The kind I preferred were about specific people.
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