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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.

Bret Easton Ellis

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