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Kristen Orser Dear descending,
I persuade myself to sound, likening wooing. Sewing a blind moment when we were smallish with tiny slippers on.
Bee, what are you saying?
We play kneesie less and less. How can I possibly go on with a straight face? I try not to sound like a girl when there are girls around, but I try to sound very much like a girl when there aren't any girls around.
The figurine is tipped. I am in hysterics about all the pretty emotions dressed in bonnets. I'm afraid I'm not telling the whole story when I'm cutting little holes into socks, calling them puppets. A point of view please (!):
When I am alone, talking to myself, I am surprised I don't sound at all like a character from The Great Gatsby.
This is the beginning of a very strange Sunday when we finally talk about what we don't talk about:
Most words sound weird if you say them over and over again; I forgot what word I was thinking about specifically. Remember that thing I was trying to tell you about yesterday? I was bleeding the alphabet in my hand,
I was telling you—
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