Every now and again I wax psychological about everyday events considered to be ordinary, but have any semblance of normalcy stripped away when analyzed for longer than 10 seconds. Much like how repeating a single word for a minute can render it into a virtually meaningless hodpodge of mouth sounds that (when assembled properly) have the amazing power [...]
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