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Submitted to Contest #158
She picks her nails at the breakfast table, trying to pick away at the blood and dirt under her fingernails – or maybe just pick away at whatever part of herself she can. Of course, this task is almost impossible, every finger broken in various places, varying degrees; but still, Chaya has never been anything other than determined, an optimist at large. Once, when she broke her finger before – a work accident – she told her mother, who dismissed her concerns, not out of malice, but in a motherly way that s...
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