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Weekly Contest #343
CW: Mental illness/self-harm Tap it Just RightThe usual burden lurking in my bones is hung around my neck in the form of my mother's pearls. The thought that there are thirteen of them, and not twelve, consumes the space in my mind that I should be using to fasten my hair away from my face. But if I do, the matching set of earrings will make it fifteen pearls, and not fourteen, which is also unacceptable, so I wear my black hair long, even though it hides the white lace details on the back of my dress.Alone in my childhood bedroom, the woman...
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