What I have spent my life atoning for aren’t those first years, those twelve years spun in glimmering threads of joy and belonging, before I knew that they had woven a cage around the child. It was the three years that began with my silent walk back up the steps of the compound, thoughts running furiously through my skull but landing nowhere and doing nothing.

So you can thank us, the scientists / ‘cause we’re the only ones trying this / for all the entrepreneurs on our client list

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