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    5 Ways You Know You're In Thomas Mann's Death In Venice

    Sometimes life is like a classic novel.

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    5. The beach is your life:

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    Swim suits and sandcastles are everything.

    4. You get that eerie feeling that someone's always following you:

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    When you're around Aschenbach, you're never really alone.

    3. Beauty makes you so angry you have to hit someone:

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    We can't all be that pretty #leaveTadzioalone

    2. The name Aschenbach makes you think to:

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    Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband because he be staring at everybody out here. Or really just Tadzio.

    1. You woke up like this:

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    #Flawless

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