This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really …

Nick Hornby
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This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place. ✨ Nick Hornby (1999). About a Boy, p.222, Penguin
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