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She laughed. A bitter, hollow sound. Her cat, Schrödinger (yes, really), looked up from his cardboard box. She cried for twelve seconds
She smiled. “Yes.”
She entered Markus’s $500 and her $499. The total with tax came to $1,047.45. She ate the extra $48.45 because the universe doesn’t do round numbers. And unless she landed a full-time job or
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