Alphabet Soup

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Two wrongs don’t make a right but one wrong sometimes does… | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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Illustration by Maya Betser

When your mind tells your body, “The orange socks are one hundred percent definitely not mine, Shira bought them and there’s no point in even trying them on,” and your hand ignores the brain and tries anyway, and the socks fit as perfectly as the glass slippers fit Cinderella’s feet. And when the whole stadium gets up and chee…

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