"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

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"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

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"She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart's desire to do so while being shadowed by men who hungered for the indefinable; and while she yearned for friendship, they yearned for something more and what she had been in search of remained removed from her, and the more she erected barriers, the more they crossed them and each time they did, she turned from them and hid."

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"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

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"All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

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