i wasn't always this anxious i swear

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"Who's that?"
I ask, from across the room.
"No clue,"
comes the answer.
"Do you know?"
A chorus of shaking heads.
"Seems new,"
another bantered.
"But I've been here all along,"
they said, as if we'd all forgotten.
"I'm the you before the you
that turned so very cautious."

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