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I thought that if |
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I ate the food of the area |
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I was visiting |
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That I might assimilate the point of view of the people there |
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As if the point of view was somehow in the food |
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So, I would make no choices myself regarding what food |
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I ateI would simply follow the examples of those around me |
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I would study menus very carefully |
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Making note of important differences and similarities |
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When shopping at the supermarket |
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I felt a great desire to walk off with someone else's groceries |
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So, I could study them at length and study their effects on me |
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As though if |
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I ate their groceries |
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I would become that person until |
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I finished their groceries |
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And we might find ourselves going to the same places |
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Running into one another at the movies or in a shopping mall |
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Reading the same books, watching the same |
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TV programs |
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Wearing the same clothes, traveling to the same places |
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And taking the same pictures, getting sick at the same time |
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And getting well again simultaneously |
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Finding ourselves attracted to the same people |
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Working at the same job and making the same amount of money |
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Living identical lives as long as the groceries lasted |
