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6 Backstory the plot: an owl-faced girl with a loud family engage in numbskull search for deliverance from dreary sack of it. a little something for the mind. they try to cheap down food. the specter of such drudgeries, like housecoats and WIC, too heavy, yet she, a pearl, a rarest thing. the owl-faced girl’s got her eye on the curved security mirror. makes her wide. she sees the unfolding of the store. everyone slowly in search. fingers brush against cans. pause over shortcake desire everywhere, so giant. desire, a door in the security mirror, rimmed in black, shadowy like a carny. desire, her eyes flashed. she’d go in but not in. leave and not leave. no one would know, she reasoned. the physical way? goosebumps. the soul way? this one came from line of dreamers, her mother: to marry paul anka. her father: riches, no work. blots out the obvious, scene by scene. like whiting out. she vanishes into her hands and gets vanished. ...

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