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In Which I Make the Case I Am Not Stupid (the Cognitive Assessment) Allison Ruvidich
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lamb
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kitten
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seven
shame
secret
seven
shame
seven
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shame
What a titan of shame, what a colossus to speak before this court of one and make the case that I am not stupid. On a better day I will argue the very idea, take apart the concept, whip its etymology up in the course of my argument, blunt it with its own historic blade, but today, I will only fight. One
lamb
seven
kitten
It was a summer night, and we were eating dinner on the porch when they realized I could not tell them what number added to eight made ten. Four, or six, and shouting, and the dinner guests embarrassed. One
lion
septum
kitten
That was the secret I kept, that words barely mean anything, but numbers are nothing; they are marks and drips and blots on the page.
