are you alone?
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This section of the archive is
Kelsey
A woman who
although desperate for companionship
is isolated.
below is 9 hours of her footage
exchanged between us
over the course of a year
with chosen text extracted and reorganized to create a new story
turn on the sound of as many videos as you'd like
ISOLATION
It’s crazy to me that I’m sleeping and you’re at the zoo
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I cleaned the entire apartment
Trying to make myself tired and go to sleep
Alexa, what time is it in London?
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I hung a bird house
And I started a garden
Do they have monkeys in London?
I imagine they have monkeys everywhere.
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I look crazy
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What’s wrong with me
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Yay you're coming home
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Wooooooooo
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Come home come home
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Cant wait
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Tell me about your flights
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Maybe I see you on Sunday
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Let me know
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The bitch is back
The bitch is back
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Yes
Um
So
Yeah
That is
Where im at
Okay, im gonna go to bed now
Alex, what time is it in London
Its the middle of the night for you
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Its gonna be fine
Its gonna be fine
I'm not tired.
This show is ridiculous.
How do you respond to a judgement that was recorded and sent to you days ago but you just saw it?
The um
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LA kitten rescue
They haven’t responded to me yet
How are you doing today friend. good? Hopefully you’re good
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I just repotted a plant, but I did it in my kitchen, after I cleaned my kitchen. So now I have dirt everywhere.
It’s real cute though.
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Look at my shirt
Its a new
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A new look
This morning I woke up and my eyes, my face, and my head and my eyes hurt.
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Actually do you think I should put the polka dot guy [plant] in there? I don't know.
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Well I didn’t pot it so ill just-
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Oh god this is heavy
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Don't drop it on camera
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Oh boy
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Actually
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Dammit
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I haven’t been telling you about our arguments because I know how you feel about her
But its been bad lately
Like bad
Stupid
She went
And uhm
Youre probably not awake
Alexa what time is it in London?
My internet is out
She had the odasity to tell me that
I think her words were like
You know 5 years ago Sawyer would have not spoken to you
Im pretty sure im being gaslit
Im pretty sure thats the right term
Oh my god
Onions
Jesus fuck
Okay
Hold on
Sucks
It sucks cause its like
Like this is where I meet all my friends
And losing Sawyer too
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I applied to foster from one, uhm, one,
I applied to foster from one company
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Im just not in the place to be alone
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Im excited for you to come home, I just want to hang out
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This is such a shit show
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I was like so beyond just not well
yesterday because of everything that was going on and then Sawyer pulled that shit so im at my parents house.
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I guess ill like go sit on my patio or something
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Yeah thats what’s Im going to do
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Ill go on my patio
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Yeah, so, lets see,
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We got a big week next week
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Not next week
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In three weeks
I have actually
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Theres a couple other people
Im talking to on the apps
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Its so cold
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Im sitting on my patio
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But I want to be inside
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I was talking about a lot of boys because thats something Im working on.
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That’s just something that Im working on
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Um
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Yeah
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Yeah
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Thats about it
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That is about
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It
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I just wanna like see like should Kevin and I even like make that transition, should we try that, I dont know.
I’m willing to test it out a little bit and see what happens.
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This is a story about solitude
I have this gut feeling that it’s not gonna happen
Don't let me do that.
Don't let me do that.
Don't let me do it
cause
I will regret that.
