As you will see, being Ned was often an uncomfortable and alienating experience, and far from finding myself in him, I usually felt kept from myself in some elemental way.

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It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about.

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A lot of men's bluster is really indicating how much the esteem of women means to them, and not how little. I was surprised, too, to find that men care as much as they do.

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I had my three date limit.

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It was mad. It was like changing the channel, or going to a foreign country where the customs are highlighted because they're not your customs.

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