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Carmen on X: "Collecting open secrets I think people are endlessly fascinating. Sometimes you meet a person and they have such an interesting or strange life that you wonder how it could be possible. But then you spend more time with them and then you figure out exactly why things are the way" / X

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Post See new posts Conversation Carmen @carmenleelau Collecting open secrets I think people are endlessly fascinating. Sometimes you meet a person and they have such an interesting or strange life that you wonder how it could be possible. But then you spend more time with them and then you figure out exactly why things are the way they are. I am not interested in actual secrets, as in things they don't tell anyone. I'm more interested in truths that are self-evident if you really get to know them, the ones that are out in the open but never stated and all their friends and lovers would agree. I love collecting these secrets about people—the ones that make them so uniquely them. I don't mean that they have any enduring, permanent qualities, like they have a *core*. But there are beliefs and behaviors that are invisible to the person like water is to a fish. These open secrets are essential for reinforcin

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