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The below line came from the recent chapter of hige wo soru manga. Yoshida
told Sayu about how he met his ex girlfriend who suddenly joined his
workplace. His ex was his high school sempai. Sayu had a monologue that went
like this

> そう、そうだ、吉田さんに昔恋人がいたなんて自然なことだ
>
> こんなに誠実な人なんだし
>
> でもそうは思っていても、 **どこか、吉田さんはそういう交際経験とかその先の経験とか...なんだか、勝手に無いように思ってしまってた**

I can't grasp the overall meaning of the bold part. How to understand
the「どこか...とか...とか...なんだ」structure? What does 勝手に無いように mean? If possible, I'd
appreciate a literal English rendering.
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grammar colloquial-language
Making sense of「どこか、吉田さんはそういう交際経験とかその先の経験とか...なんだか、勝手に無いように思ってしまってた」
どこか, なんだか, and 勝手に all modify 思ってしまってた as adverbs and describe how the speaker
(Sayu) was thinking what she was thinking. どこか means “somewhere”, but it could
be understood as “somewhere in her mind” in this context.

そういう交際経験とかその先の経験とか is the subject of 無い. Sayu was somehow thinking Yoshida
didn’t have such experiences.
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