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So it’s sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?

— John Bender  ·  The Breakfast Club

Five mismatched folding chairs form a loose circle on a scuffed floor in warm orange light.
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The speaker finds one consolation in a situation they also call demented and sad: at least it's social. Repeating that word makes the defence sound shaky but determined. The final question invites someone else to agree that even this counts as human company.

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