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  • When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them - the carrer dads, the responsible and diligent moms - and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I looked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples gave off and that permeated the air - the shared assumption, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere - despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this. I concluded with an aching finality that the could-happen possibilities were gone, that doing whatever you wanted whenever you wanted was over. The future didn't exist anymore. Everything was in the past and would stay there. And I assumed - since I was the most recent addition to this group and had not let yet myself be fully initiated into its rituals and habits - that I was the loner, the outsider, the one whose solitude seemed endless. ... (continue)

    When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them - the carrer dads, the responsible and diligent moms - and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I looked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples gave off and that permeated the air - the shared assumption, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere - despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this. I concluded with an aching finality that the could-happen possibilities were gone, that doing whatever you wanted whenever you wanted was over. The future didn't exist anymore. Everything was in the past and would stay there. And I assumed - since I was the most recent addition to this group and had not let yet myself be fully initiated into its rituals and habits - that I was the loner, the outsider, the one whose solitude seemed endless.

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