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around your sister. She’s having a hard time right now. It makes her feel bad.
I stared at her.
I had done something enormous, something difficult, something I had earned entirely on my own. And my mother was asking me to hide it.
Okay, I said finally. I’m sorry.
You’re a good girl, she said, patting my leg.
After she left I sat in the dark with a cold continue reading …
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