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A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
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“I don’t love you.”
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Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
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