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Dr. Nicely. To Maude, the rest of her family are idiots. Complete morons. And she has no problem telling each and every one of them

her thoughts on this subject, especially her mother. I do not care what your cousin thinks, Kelly.

Ashley will not go on a date with him, she says into the heavy black telephone handset.

The thick cord spirals down to the phone's base, a piece of

technology that is as lethal as it is convenient. Maude waits for Kelly to respond,

but per usual, something her sister Orsa says all the time, Kelly is silent.

You don't have to agree with me, Maude continues.

She picks up the phone base off the small stand in the hallway

and carries it into her bedroom, shutting the door behind her.

Dragging the long cord, Maude hurries to her bed,

where she settles in cross-legged.

But you know how mother is?

She'd never let your cousin, who is 21, take my 19-year-old sister to some movie.

If she did, it'd be because she'd go with and insist that the theater lights be up at full the whole time.

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