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[Lonely Anywhere] - Nina Perlman — Autofocus

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I used to stalk the Facebook pages of people like whom I most aspired to be. Scouring their lists of favorite books and movies and musicians, I fell deeper, desperately—I knew these were the kinds of things that made a person. Freshman year of college, I met a girl named Sarah in my Darkroom Photo

[Lonely Anywhere] May 10 Written By Nina Perlman I used to stalk the Facebook pages of people like whom I most aspired to be. Scouring their lists of favorite books and movies and musicians, I fell deeper, desperately—I knew these were the kinds of things that made a person. Freshman year of college, I met a girl named Sarah in my Darkroom Photo II class. She was in the year above me, a slim, shy girl from Tennessee, who wore red Dansko clogs in the lab, slipping them on and off her feet as she processed her negatives, or looked at them through a loop against the light table. She listened to T

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