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up when she saw me.

“Cake lady.”

“I have a name.”

“I know.”

“Do you?”

She grinned.

“What are you working on?”

“Fractions.”

“That is serious.”

“Mom says they’re important.”

“Your mother is right.”

Laya looked deeply disappointed in me.

I laughed.

That ordinariness mattered.

She wasn’t a symbol of hardship.

She was Laya.

Nine years old.

Hated fractions.

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