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Idiosyncrasies. Convincing oneself that two very uncorrelated happenings, phenomenons, even, are correlated. See, like the dry skin around my mouth appeared the day we met. It lasted throughout the summer and is clearing up, now. Now that we are all clear. Or, perhaps, there's been a mind-fog face-fog correlation sans romantic relationship. In that case, I've been blind. Blind as a bat. I mis-read, mistook, misinterpreted my own dry skin. It's almost like, at least it can be compared to the time when I went to the Urgent Care because there was a rash on my back and the doctor said it was shingles. In some of the same breaths he also mentioned that usually only old people get it. And, he said, he said people who are stressed, too. And I said, "but I'm not stressed." And then I thought, am I?
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 4:55 PM UTC
Dermatology Wake-Up Calls
Idiosyncrasies. Convincing oneself that two very uncorrelated happenings, phenomenons, even, are correlated. See, like the dry skin around my mouth appeared the day we met. It lasted throughout the summer and is clearing up, now. Now that we are all clear. Or, perhaps, there's been a mind-fog face-fog correlation sans romantic relationship. In that case, I've been blind. Blind as a bat. I mis-read, mistook, misinterpreted my own dry skin. It's almost like, at least it can be compared to the time when I went to the Urgent Care because there was a rash on my back and the doctor said it was shingles. In some of the same breaths he also mentioned that usually only old people get it. And, he said, he said people who are stressed, too. And I said, "but I'm not stressed." And then I thought, am I?
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 4:55 PM UTC
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