When I Told My Parents I Lost Everything My Phone Started Exploding With Messages

it: that the most effective response to having been made smaller was not to insist on the facts of your own size, though those facts mattered, but to build something that could not be reduced to a version of you someone else preferred.

I set the key back on the windowsill.

Then I sat down at the writing desk and opened the laptop again.

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