Marisol nodded. She thought of all the binders she’d never owned, the years she’d spent hiding in button-downs and baggy jeans, trying to flatten what she now desperately wanted to accentuate. The binder in her hands was a relic of another journey—one that ran parallel to hers but in the opposite direction.
She held it like a dead bird.
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