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Alina remembers her last normal day the same way one remembers a fever dream: flashes of sensation, colors she’s lost the words for, irritations that no amount to less than a trailing thought. She remembers a breakfast sandwich she’d give her eyeteeth for now, coffee rich even despite the burned beans her roommate complained of. Scratchy polyester blouse filched from a secondhand store, kitten heels barely holding on for dear life, clacking their way down the sidewalks as the cars honked and moved centimeters at a time, the street packed to the gills with taxis, Ubers, and bikes, the poor bastards trying to make it down the avenue in decent time. Remembers seeing something flash over her phone’s screen, a warning, a siren blaring overhead—. And then silence. Blessed, all-encompassing silence. Now, Alina is considered one of the lucky ones for having survived at all, a pool small enough that only about twenty-five percent of the world’s population fit into it. Of that percentage, she’s less fortunate to have been saddled with the soft gland that popped just above where her collarbone met her neck.

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