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Everyone who passes you knows exactly what it means and so do you, and every single day you do it, it tells you the same thing about yourself.
Being a library aide is a job.
Same room-avoidance.
Same thirty-two minutes away from a cafeteria.
Completely different sentence in your own head at the end of it.
Ophelia Nakagawa found a way to give a boy a reason to not be in a cafeteria that did not require him to be a boy who could not be in a cafeteria, and she did it inside her own authority, for free, in about one telephone call, and she never told me she had done it.
I found out in 2015, from Julian, in a car.
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