Misery looks like my mother in the Harbor Hospital waiting room on a Tuesday night after work, like the widened eyes of my fourteen-year-old cat watching four towering strangers carry my father out on a stretcher. It looks like Chinese food, spilt and forgotten on the floor, rice and shrimp smashed by black boots …
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