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A girl sat next to me on the bus* the other day. She sat there for the duration of the trip engrossed in her cell phone. We had nothing to do with each other. But this stranger was literally the closest any other human being has been to me in years. Just when I had gotten comfortably dead inside, this woman broke my tranquility and reminded me how much I long for any level of human contact. Even if it is someone completely indifferent to my existence but is willing to sit next to me on a crowded bus.

*By way of explanation, on the bus most people will choose to stand rather than sit next to me. When they do, they sit on the edge of the seat and move to an empty seat or get off the bus as soon as possible. This is also true of any public or private space I enter. Am I some kind of monster that everyone can see but me?

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