As if I were not a person, with qualification, skills, talents, traits... feelings, - but a mistake ...yeah, no more than a mistake, a label, a seal on my forehead, be warned, a mistake, a talking and breathing and looking one, right at everyone, no shame, no decency, but two eyes.
                 /from a novel-in-progress Lily White Symbol of Innocence by Vidal Rousso/

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