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Kimberley Anne Santos

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Fluent in Me

Submitted to Contest #296

"Why is there no rulebook for me?"Maven has always suspected that life is just an elaborate game of charades, and unfortunately, she never got the rulebook.She has spent most of her life watching others, trying to parse out the delicate nuances of everyday speech. The coded way people interact. The way “How are you?” is not actually a question but a social gesture, like a nod, like eye contact held for exactly the right number of seconds.She is thirty now. She has a good job, a clean apartment, friendships she tends to like best in small, co...

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