My Anxious Habit

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Ever since high school I have had this interesting obsession with copying. I will sit down with a notebook and pen, pop open a nearby book, and copy a paragraph or two into my notebook. I have filled so many notebooks in this way that I have lost count of them, and I have never met anyone else with this abnormal hobby.

I think the thing I enjoy most about it, and why I repeatedly crave sitting down and copying words into my…