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the floorboards, saying, “When people keep trying to define you downward, refuse the measurement.”
I slipped the key into my coat pocket.
No one in the room spoke.
There are silences that ask for comfort.
This was not one of them.
This was the silence after architecture collapses and everyone has to see the beams.
I stood.
My body felt both very light and continue reading …
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