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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.

— Lily Tomlin The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

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