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Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Names You Steal

I often feel the weight of a guilty conscience bearing down on me. I'm not trying to excuse my actions, but my dopemin levels force me to do it. In all, i stole seven women's names. Was this a lot, or not so many? Who could say. So how do you do it? It's mostly by will power, power of concentration, psychic energy. Usually stealing is the only way i'm pretty skilled at,. sneaking into people's rooms when they're out and take it. You use that object with the woman's name on it, along with your will power to steal a name. And precisely i stare at the name that's written there for a

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