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"I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly. He was talking about lost loves.

When someone you loved had left you, it hurts for a very long time. You were dreaming about that person and then they suddenly disappeared from your life and you can't understand why they left. It's not a good feeling to have a broken heart.

Source: The Night Bookmobile

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