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Ok, so I have spent some time trying to find so explanations of the grammar
used in this sentence but I can't seem to quite understand what the 「自分でも」 and
「くらい」 are doing in this sentence.

> 「 **自分でも** 不思議な **くらい** に落ち着いた心で、目の前の美少女に静かに尋ねた」

My best translation of the sentence is: "with a strangely calm heart, I
quietly asked the beautiful girl before my eyes."

here's some of sentences before to give some context

> 俺は、頭で教えるよりも先にその子を突き飛ばしていた。 そして・・。 ・・自分でも不思議なくらいに落ち着いた心で、目の前の美少女に静かに尋ねた。
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grammar meaning
「自分でも」 and 「くらい」 what's it being used for here?
It's a common rhetorical phrase, though not idiomatic, to express total
unexpectedness.

> 自分でも（不思議な／びっくりする／驚く／よくわからない etc.）（ほど／くらい）

It tells that what you did or felt was out of your own expectation. You could
translate it like "so -- that even myself don't (didn't) know why".
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> with a strangely composed heart, I calmly asked the beautiful girl before my
> eyes  
>

**_自分でも : oneself / even I .**  
It was strange even for himself, since he thought he shouldn't be feel that
composed._

**_不思議なくらい : strangely / oddly enough / to the extent of being strange**  
Just 不思議 means strange/mysterious, adding くらい modify the meaning into above
explanations_
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