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Stay True

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4.04 AVERAGE

eccentricities_'s review against another edition

4.25

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3.5

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ehhfy's review

4.25

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5.0

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“We spent a lot of time in those days talking about sitcoms, trying to remember all the weird ones that lasted just a season, identifying all the tropes or character types that had made TV so pleasingly predictable. Short lists of all the times we remembered seeing an Asian delivery boy, maybe even a tertiary Asian acquaintance orbiting the main friend group. I thought we were just goofing off and passing time. But Ken was piecing together a theory about the world.”

“All my classes in college essentially taught the same lesson: another world was once possible.”

“to remind us that there are other ways of being than that of "economic man." That remnants of "another law, another economy, and another mentality" survive alongside the ones we perceive to be inevitable and final”

“HERE WAS A TIME when fragments would come spilling out of me a few sips into the first beer. The fact that this specific bottle I had chosen-Newcastle Brown Ale-reminded me of him. The fact that I was drinking at all. The fact that I had a tendency to disappear, to take friendship too seriously sometimes or not seriously at all most of the time. That my mood depended on the proximity to summertime, the feeling of the afternoon sun, the sound of a distant melody coming from a stranger’s window”

“”What an embarrassment I will always pine for," I wrote, imagining what might have happened if we had gone swing dancing. "To make topple over in laughter."”

“I simply felt lucky to witness something so effortlessly kind-to see my friend do something that was good.”