And as if I were waking from a trance, I pushed away the silence, I beat it down with a yes yes yes, of course of course.

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And to me, she looks like she's in a trance really, I mean, like she's literally in the music.

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"Nothing, " I said, and I kept driving, in a kind of trance, so that Anne Marie's cries of "Wait!"

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