attract
verb (used with object)
to draw by a physical force causing or tending to cause to approach, adhere, or unite; pull (opposed to repel).
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Then Captain Martin, noticing the attention I am attracting, shuts the door.
From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Thomas Mott Osborne