Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly s — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly s — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly s — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly s — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly s — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
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Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.

— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
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