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    On the pleasures of being both "in" and "out" of the discourse (opens the original)

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    At some point I accepted that my fate was to fall for guys who liked watching films none of my friends had seen. They didn’t want to watch buzzy or Oscar nominated films; in fact, they mostly refused. Sometimes I watched them solo — It’s NICE to be a part of a larger conversation, I’d say, defensively — but mostly I, a lousy TV-watcher anyway, appreciated the exposure to foreign films and old films and other movies that could reasonably be called “films.” Sam, I should say, is simultaneously dip

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