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Culture-Dating-Clash

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This is how you fight when someone is concussed

The crunching was hurting his head. “It’s a chip,” I whispered.

He waxed on about politics and the latest This American Life episode

I nodded, although at points I was barely listening.

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We rose into a five o’clock night

I took a picture and captioned it, “This is what transnational loneliness looks like.”

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We drifted around the malls as if we had something to buy

Re-emerging from the air-conditioned world we found it had rained, and stopped.

I am the doctor with a diagnosis, the telegram that comes early in the morning, the six missed calls from your mom

Okay, that is really dramatic. I am not that important.

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Merle is a popular dog

Her short snout and desperate gaze make her abnormally irresistible to humans.

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Instinctively I feel self-conscious.

As though wearing colour was the mistake instead of just being a woman.

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I remember thinking that I needed this everyday forgettable object.

I felt like I worked to get this object and therefore moved it all over the country.