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on the outside, looking in

Excluded from a group, process, or opportunity, and feeling downhearted as a result.
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"In a sense, I've always felt on the outside, looking in," Mr. Douglas says. "It's my background, damn it. My father was an illiterate Russian immigrant, a ragman, the lowest rung on the economic scale. There were six sisters and my mother; I was the only boy. To be a young Jewish boy in a town—Amsterdam, in upstate New York—that was quite anti-Semitic."

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ekstere, enrigardante

En el exterior mirando hacia adentro

À l'extérieur, regarde

外を見て

снаружи, глядя в

在外面，看著

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