Chapter 1 - Auden

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People stare at me with peculiar eyes. People stare at me like some lab rat or zoo animal. People whisper about me. I hear stray whispers of their conversation and I have heard enough to know 2 things:

1. I could never belong here - the snippets I hear sound like a foreign language in which I have no means to decipher.

2. People care enough to gossip about me, but not enough to learn my name. To them, I am known as the "might-be girl."

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