If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. Moments later, the stranger was talking to a completely different person — yet strange as it may sound, most didn’t notice. 

The second compartment, a principle that’s been used to bisect countless showgirls.

“I’m surprised they remember.”  “It was all so casual and warm.”

“no one is taking it for granted,” “Everyone is working harder than ever.“If you’ve ever been to camp or rehab,

 they didn’t realize that my mild pain was the beginning of a process that would soon leave us wondering if I would live” — brief pause — “or die.