Mixed feelings were confusing feelings, and I didn’t feel c… - Alexander Chee

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Mixed feelings were confusing feelings, and I didn’t feel confused except as to why it was so hard for everyone to understand that I existed. Living this way felt like discovering your shoe was nailed to the floor, but only one of them, so that you paced, always, a circle of possibility, defined by the limited imaginations of others.

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Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

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