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Miranda rested the side of her face on the desk—the perfection of the cool laminate against her burning skin—and considered the poverty of the room. Poverty not in the economic sense, but in the sense of not being for the gravity of the moment, an insufficient setting—for what?

Emily St. John Mandel

Miranda rested the side of her face on the desk—the perfection of the cool laminate against her burning skin—and considered the poverty of the room. Poverty not in the economic sense, but in the sense of not being for the gravity of the moment, an insufficient setting—for what?

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