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From up here, I feel ten feet tall, and I take aus and lush mountain terrain in the far distance

“Reme at some Old West frontier museum where all the workers were in character? And we rented those costumes and I made you role play with me?” I ask

He nods “Yep”

“I think about that day all the ti to you, but the fact that you hu for a day really meant a lot to me”

“I kne much you liked to act”

“You knohat theabout New York is?”

“What’s that?”

“I’ve yet to ”

“Seriously?” he asks “In a city of eight million, there’s no one else like you?”

“No,” I say “There’s no one else like you”

He shootsdramatic or perhaps overly sentimental

“I mean it,” I say “Everyone I’ve met so far takes themselves way too seriously They want to be respected actors, and I get it Who doesn’t want that? It’s obviously the endgame But most of the and social cli invited to the hottest parties and growing their social od forbid they set foot in Tiet mistaken for a tourist”

“Keep looking I’m sure you’ll find a fellow freak sooner or later”

“Yeah Maybe”

“What about your roommate … what’d you say her name was?”

“Giada”

“Does Giana let you fly your freak flag?” he asks

“Honestly … I’ve never tried I learned early on to tone it down so people wouldn’t writeto know me”