She hugged her knees to her chest. “I chase that. One frame out of a thousand. One second where the mask slips and the real person is allowed to exist.”
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Blake closed her eyes. She thought of her nineteen-year-old self, nervous and hungry and full of naive fire. She thought of the semicolon tattoo— my story isn’t over. She thought of the Thai food, the reruns, the scar from the wine glass. She hugged her knees to her chest
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