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''From being a senior and valued member of a highly structured community to being just one of 270 million anonymous civilians. From being necessary and wanted to being one person too many. From being where someone told him to be every minute of every day to being confronted with three million square miles and maybe forty more years and no map and no schedule.''

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''He had gone from being a big fish in a small pond to being nobody.''

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''People just waved and smiled and said hello. They all assumed everybody had something to be private about.''

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''In the front part of his brain, he knew it was some kind of a complex, alienated response to his situation.''

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''The front part of his brain told him his response was understandable, but defensive, the response of a man who liked solitude but was worried by loneliness. It told him it was an extremist response, and he should take care with it.''