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scream.

Instead

I made

a major—in

retrospect,

not the best—

decision.

I creaked

to sitting,

thought

twice,

but when

she insisted

I drag my

rubbery

bones to the

dinner table,

I looked

her in the

eye and for

the first time

in my life,

told my

mother,

“Fuck you.”

Major Mistake

Her eyes popped wide, her jaw

dropped like concrete. She reached

out and shook me.

What did you say?

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