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I made the coffee the way she liked it even though the house was too quiet for it to make sense.The kitchen light hummed with a tired, fluorescent patience. Outside the window, January pressed its palm flat against the glass; the world looked rinsed and colorless, like it had been left in the sink too long. I stood at the counter and lined up the small, ordinary steps like they were instructions for building a life: mug first, spoon second, sugar third.Cream before coffee. That was her rule. “It keeps it from curdling,” she’d say, as if the ...
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How could things be so out of my control? My entire life is turning upside down. Things aren't ever going to be the same. I sat in my eighth grade math class glaring at the test facing me from my desk. I was rereading question number one so much that I began seeing double and triple letters all morphing together and then spreading out onto the page. A tear welled up in my eye and I almost let it fall until I heard a deep voice behind me say, "Do you have an extra pencil?" My thoughts were so deep that I didn't know how to answer his qu...
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