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Instead, there is the bald man, and there is his daughter, who is getting too old too fast, even as she isn’t getting old fast enough.
Here is a scene: it is morning, and he is driving away from me in the dark, and she is somewhere already awake, brushing her teeth, doing her funny forward lunges, feeling nervous for the bouts to come. And I am here, in the in-between, in a bed on the second floor of a home in Kentucky. I am in the lost hour, the skipped hour. I am alone, without a child, and it’s all happening too quickly, and it couldn’t be over too soon.
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