He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. (Neil Gaiman)

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

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