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 Over the years, I have thankfully fallen out of the habit of asking whether or not I am a burden, of *feeling* like a burden.
 
-What I haven't done is relinquish the feeling that there are bounds around me. There is a barrier that marks the end of me, a sphere of influence that has a point where it stops.
+What I haven't done is relinquish the feeling that there are bounds around me. There is a barrier that marks the end of me, a sphere of influence that has a point where it stops. I don't know if anyone else sees it. I doubt it.
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+I see it, though. It's always there. A little shield, a screen, a forcefield, glimmering and translucent. It's the point where the space that I take up ends.
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+> I must tell you it gives me great pleasure to think of you reading these words in licks and whorls of flame, your eyes unable to work backwards, unable to keep the letters on a page; instead, you must absorb them, admit them into your memory.\footnote{\cite[8]{timewar}}
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+> Will you cut off, leaving my note to spin its fractal math inside you?\footnote{\cite{14}}
 
 ((How much space I take up))