The Way We Were

 

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The way we were always using the wrong words was a waterproof ticket to getting ourselves into a bottomless pit of trouble. It was definitely not safe to poke the beast but we insisted on doing it. At some point, we even came up with a language of our own. "Speaking in an unknown language won't get you out of this mess," she said, her eyes rolling in a remarkably odd way. We wanted to laugh but we didn't, of course. Instead, we underlined random words in her books. Till this day, she keeps trying to figure it all out.
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