Notes from the Dishwasher Café

Notes from the Dishwasher Café

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Notes from the Dishwasher Café
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“You look like you’re not twenty-six anymore. I bet you exchanged 47% of your skin’s structural integrity for something really good! Don’t hold out on me. What, in your almost forty-two years, do you know to be true?” says a middling-sized carbuncle of my mind.

This one isn’t as mean as the others, has maybe some piece of a genuine interest behind its wet little eyes, so I try to answer.

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