What Fatima wants from life changes daily—sometimes what she thinks is that she’d like nothing from life except to be free to change her mind at any moment. She’d like freedom from having to feed herself or buy clothes or pay bills, material freedom. But she does not have that. So she is returning to her parents, where she will work at a corner store and save up money to move to New York. The commonness is so maddening to her. Everyone moves to New York. Everyone saves and scrimps just to suffer and struggle so that they can say that they lived, that they tried. How stupid. How stupid. How
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