When she looked in the mirrors, she saw only a place that kept pulling me away from her and, in that place, a rival of whom she was desperately jealous.

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And as I watched the Rockets slowly pull away from the hometown boys in blue, it occurred to me that Jeremy Lin undoubtedly made the right decision in pulling a Steve Miller Band.

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At one corner, I saw a cop grabbing the arm of a woman in front of me and pulling her into the street.

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It was raining, and the car in front of me hit a lorry pulling out.

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But in pulling away from my original friends, who liked me despite my being different, or maybe because I was, I hurt them.

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