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23 Instructions for the Interviewer Once, she will say, I didn’t know there was a hollow inside me until he pushed himself into it. Once, you learned that inside you was not hollow but seam: color of the rim of the river tonguing the long dark shore of stone: reflection of yourself an endless ripple in corrugated metal: width of the silver bangle circling now her thin, dark arm. Take the tea she offers. Once, she will say, I was young, like you. Once, you wanted anyone to fill you with blue noise. Once, you didn’t know your own body’s worth. Put the porcelain cup down. Let it slide into the saucer’s waiting hollow. ...

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