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you’ve been staring at my prosthetic leg for the past hour.
 
              
            
              lacrymosas
not anymore. [ deniz looks down to acknowledge him before returning her gaze towards the skillet resting over the cooktop’s fire, stirring around the vegetables with her utensil. she is making menemen, a turkish dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, green peppers, and onions. it is one of the best ways to start off the morning. ] i’ve had a prosthetic leg since i was twelve. rehabilitation and pain management helped a lot with the phantom limb pain that i experience during the first year of losing my leg.
                  
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              zashovich
@lacrymosas [jardani is more quiet than he usually is. he stared more with familiarity than anything—maybe he had seen something similar before. a distant memory before he was lifted into someone’s arm and taken away from that place—-zasha’s. he scoots an inch closer, sitting on the floor. arms folded and resting on his knees when he asks: ] does it hurt?
                  
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