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My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

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Language laundering theft.

“When we were kids, you took my bike for two weeks and brought it back with a bent frame,” I said. “You took my PS2 memory card because your game save got corrupted. You took my winter coat senior year because yours didn’t look good enough for a date. Every single time, Mom told me not to be difficult.”

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