There was a photograph of her outside the Capitol that morning, flashing her “hang loose” sign. She had a motto, “Hydrate and Press On.” She pressed on through a door kicked in moments before, after a Proud Boy used a stolen police shield to smash a window. Surging toward another set of doors that wouldn’t open. Veering left, down a hall, the flow gathering force, until she crashed up against the doors through which she had to pass, if she were to save the children, or love her president, or defeat the mask, or get out of debt, or prove her mettle, her moxie, her all-American badassery. Hang
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