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From We Are Never Meeting In Real Life: Essays, by Samantha Irby

AHA!

"'SAM, THERE WERE THREE DIFFERENT PROTEINS ON YOUR PLATE.'
Aha! There it was: BACON SHAME. From someone with a preternaturally high metabolism who looked very good in the inappropriately tight turtlenecks he was fond of wearing."

From You Don't Have to Be Grateful for Sex

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From The Angel on the Roof, by Russell Banks

WAS

"I was the boy who went up the hill and then, inexplicably, turned around and came back empty-handed. I was Little Boy Blue asleep with his horn, while his sheep roamed the meadow, and the cows ate the corn. I was ashamed for all of us, every one."

From Success Story

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From The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy

NOW

"He now gazed more at the pavements and less at the housefronts when he walked about; more at the feet and leggings of men, and less into the pupils of their eyes with the blazing regard which formerly had made them blink."

From Chapter 31