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Christopher cannot understand some emotions:

„Eight years ago, when I first met Siobhan, she showed me this picture:

and I knew that it meant “sad”, which is what I felt when I found the dead dog.

Then she showed me this picture:

and I knew that it meant “happy”, like when I’m reading about the Apollo space missions, or when I am still awake at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. in the morning and I can walk up and down the street and pretend that I am the only person in the whole world.

Then she drew some other pictures:

But I was unable to say what these meant.
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