“No,” Hazel repeated. She decided this word would be her brain’s new autoreply in uncomfortable situations, or during times when someone asked her a question and she hadn’t really been listening. Social pressure seemed to push her toward the other direction—to want her to nod and agree to everything. Flash a timid smile that could be interpreted however the listener liked. But after her marriage, Hazel found no combination more appalling than the vague with the affirmative. Know the full story; that’s when you get wholly on board. That’s how you avoid becoming an evil tech genius’s
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