Literary Work
That’s Why Rachel Rodman and Ellen Saunders
“I don’t get passive aggressiveness,” I said to her—to the world—with a stupefied howl. “I just don’t understand.” “Oh,” she said, “I guess that’s why you think I like you.”
Everyone Rachel Rodman
“How can everyone be faking it?” I protested. “Everyone else cannot possibly feel like this—like I do—all of the time.” Her eyes crinkled in a way that, at first, I could not read. But then she blinked and I apprehended it: the misery—the coldness—so that, even at this faint intimation, lidded and brief, I wondered if I would ever again be warm. “Fake harder,” she advised me.
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