Mara watched a film where a mother learned how to dream other people’s lives and stole them in small, polite increments. It ended with a scene of a child handing a stolen bicycle back to its owner with the wrong name scrawled on the seat. The applause that followed was neither loud nor polite; it felt like someone had adjusted the light in the room to reveal a truth you had suspected about yourself.
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