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The Person With an Annoying Tic

This is the person who alternates between jiggling their leg, slightly changing positions, and taking off and putting on their sweater. This is the person who sniffles constantly but never blows their nose and cracks their knuckles like it’s going out of style. This is the person who coughs just once, very softly, precisely every 22 seconds until you want to scream, Just hack it up already! But you can’t, because that would make you…

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