i find comparing people to be not very beneficial. for the most part people just don't line up easily and even if they did, comparing them is rarely fair.
and yet, a peril of age may just be that when you meet someone that you inevitably find yourself thinking, she's no ____. when it happens unconsciously is when i find it most troubling because i did not deliberately concoct an equation to produce this result. some part of my head did it, all on its own, in the background. and damn if it isn't right.
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