The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn’t think they’re being followed. This is how I learned to follow people, and over the course of an entire school year, I learned fascinating secrets about complete strangers I followed for hours on end. It made me wonder who knew my secrets, on the days I thought I was walking with no one behind me.
-- Lemony Snicket, All The Wrong Questions, Book 2, When Did You See Her Last?, Chapter Seven
The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn’t think they’re being followed.
Does that actually work?
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