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Contrary to what they believed, I was never allergic to skin. Or sunrays. I wasn’t a cadre.

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Arrested by three. Tortured by five. Fornication. For negligence. For negation. Wasn’t that a question about a syzygy? Or posture? He even pawned his pearls to pose with my wax figure. I sneezed profusely in their hands.

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