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                                  OF FELINES AND SHORELINES People are always talking about lost things. Lost time, lost socks, lost chances. It seems like if we don't stop every now and then to take stock of the things we've lost, we'd have to add our own minds to the list. But cats don't have this problem. Cats lustily chase, catch, and lose a thousand things a minute, and race right on to the next one with undiminished gusto, ready to try anything and everything once again, ready to give the grand pursuit another shot. Losing everything but the whole point. Cats and beaches have a lot in common: They’re both filled with mystery and delight. The place where the land meets the sea is a lost place, a place of blurred frontiers and far off horizons, things to be chased. Where the waves ceaselessly pursue the shore, anything can be found. I've been so busy getting lost, I'm just now finding this.
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Distance Between Friends

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        What's Distance Between Friends ? Jacques was waiting for me at a metro stop in central Paris. He wore the same jacket that I remembered, with the same patch from a band whose name I couldn’t pronounce. I hadn't seen him for ten years, and I hadn't been back to Paris for eleven. “Hello,” he greeted me, rubbing his beard wearily. “You're a long way from home.” “Home is a long way from Paris,” I answered. “You, meanwhile, didn't even have to take a bus.” He looked at me a long time, studying me. He needed to decide whether he still recognized me after ten long years. “Monami,” he decided, and he hugged me like the old friend I still am.
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                                      SOCIAL MEDIA "FRIENDS" She likes me. I mean, she “Liked” me, so I guess that means she likes me. We were on a lot of the same social networks, but our circles never quite overlapped. Then I saw her in a picture with a friend's friend's brother. She was tagged in a photo, and I immediately wanted to get to know her. Though I had seen her online, we had never met, so when I sent her a message asking her to get coffee in real life, it was like a blind date. Coffee went well. She laughed at my jokes and understood most of my references. I didn't hear from her for a few days, until last night when I got a notification on my phone. She liked me.
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