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“If this keeps up, you are going to be the most absurd Disney princess of all time,”
Coming back empty-handed was bad enough; coming back fucked-up and empty-handed was unacceptable.
He looked down at the rose in his other hand, its neck drooping like a tubercular heroine’s, and felt abruptly and horribly sorry for it: for the fact that it had been grown somewhere, fed and watered and nurtured, and cut and brought all the way here to this airport to be bought and given to someone, to make them smile, and here it was with him instead, dying in his hand. Thwarted of its purpose. Its small brief life all wasted.
carrying suitcases or rolling them along like obedient gun dogs trotting at their masters’ heels.
The microwave went ding after the manner of its kind.
