into the blue 🖤 campbell bain
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"he fixes me with wide, curious eyes, - far too intense for his own good, or perhaps even mine.
"dorothy."
he looks at me a while longer, as if it's up to him to decide whether the name i've used all my life fits. finally, he shakes his head.
"can i call you dottie?"
i blink at him, taking in his strange, overly-exuberant face in the dim television light. "who says i want you to call me anything?" i ask him.
he smiles at me, looking simultaneously kind and condescending, as though i've missed something huge. "no one," he says. "but i'll have to call you something, won't i?" "
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in which an american girl in a scottish asylum finds herself entangled with the manic boy in her wing.
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