Throughout my life, two themes have turned up time and again. One is that I tend to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. This is usually due to my bafflement at middle-class norms, even after all these years. That and I lack a filter. The other thing is I often find myself in the least likely of circumstances. As a result, I have a lot of stories that revolve around one in a million happenings.
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