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When the song comes on, you don’t quite roll your eyes at me and I don’t quite reach my hand out to squeeze yours. Kylie’s syrupy voice is still lush and full of life. I speak before Nick Cave can cut in with his murderous baritone,

“You want another karipap?”

I’d been standing next to you at assembly that day thirty years ago when Puan Salmah announced your sis...


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Fabric does what it’s told if you’re patient, my mother says. She irons sitting down, in the corner of the living room with her back to the garden. She holds up the tumble-dried garment against the light, eyeing the creases like they’ll argue with her. And lose, always.

I am too small, too young, legs tucked under my hips on a plastic chair I’ll take too long to grow o...


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Shawna says she’s always looking for a person’s single lowest moment, and you thought to mention your husband is in love with another woman, but not that, how you’d managed to think about anything else until months later, when your screensaver showed mountains you’d seen. Were they real? Or when YouTube asked you to choose between commercials for tax season or Direct TV, but ...


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