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And, not being here with you, I have the dreadful feeling that I don’t exist at all.
— Anne Rice • Interview with the Vampire
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An editorial interpretation.
Distance from someone deeply loved can feel like more than loneliness, it can feel like a threat to one's own sense of being real. This captures how identity, for some people, gets so wrapped up in another person's presence that separation feels almost like disappearing altogether.
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