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#148: Too much music - by Haley Nahman - Maybe Baby

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On unmuting the world

I remember the first time I consciously experienced main character syndrome. I was walking through the quad of my high school with the new portable CD player I’d gotten for Christmas. I’d figured out how to store it in my backpack and snake my headphone cord through the front zipper pocket, and this unobtrusiveness, combined with the now-silent scene of my peers milling around me, gave my music the feeling of a soundtrack. I pretended I was in a movie, and suddenly I felt more beautiful and important, like the dramas of my life might interest other people, even strangers. The mundane was…

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