“Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey."When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.”
Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls
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