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You see it about a quarter of the way down, halfway through
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a line, "The kid."
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This is about Faunia.
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The kid, whose existence became a hallucination at seven,
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and a catastrophe at fourteen, and a disaster after that,
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whose vocation is to be neither a waitress nor a hooker nor
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a farmer nor a janitor,
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but forever the stepdaughter to a lascivious stepfather
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and the undefended offspring of a self-obsessed mother,
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the kid, who mistrusts everyone,
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sees the con in everyone and yet is protected against nothing,
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whose capacity to hold on unintimidated is enormous,