First that picture made me feel sick, and then it pissed me off. Not the boy. Not even the cop in the picture who wasn’t crying. But that Portland claimed it. Would not shut up about it. Plastered it all over social media so I couldn’t go anywhere without seeing it. Like that’s the world we all live in up here, separate and different and artisanal. Self-congratulatory, like I’m not terrified right now because I’ve been pulled over and my ex-boyfriend’s dad doesn’t seem to recognize me and no one’s asked for my license or the car’s registration and there’s hot flint where my voice box used to
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