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She never forgets Natasha. She never forgets anything about their life in Ohio, actually. She imagines that she is one of the roly-poly bugs that they used to catch together, hardening her outside and letting it accept all of the violence and hatred that the Red Room has to offer while she curls inward and protects her soft insides, remembers hazy summer days and nights spent catching fireflies and what it was to have a family. *** Or: five times that control is taken from Yelena and she hates it, plus one time that she gives it away willingly.

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