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Mom’s stupid egg timer fills the awkward silence at the dinner table. Tick. Tick. Tick. Finally, Ellen scoffs. “Turn that thing off! We don’t need a countdown to our doom.” Mom stammers, her eyes red with tears. “Oh- I… well, I just thought… sorry.” Devon lights a cigarette. Riley plugs her nose, and Mom scowls. “Not in my house, young man.” “Since when have I been your young man?” Devon asks, speaking with that drawl that had always annoyed his mother. “And why do you care? The whole world’ll go up in smoke in…” he glances at the egg time...
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