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    She can see it in his face, hear it in his voice: a thawing, a fractional lowering of his guard at the reminder that there's no one else in the room right now. No audience, no jury, no one stood with their hands outstretched, waiting impatiently for him to place in their palms a simpler version of himself, one with all the edges sanded off. An elevator pitch, an abstract, an unbridled vastness whittled down to something more easily digestible. No one in this room is asking him to be anything other than his peculiar, prismatic self, one-half the man everyone else expects him to be and the other an endless tumble of cheerful contradictions. Right now, in this room, there's just Camilla, who's only ever held him in her hands like a priceless first-edition: untranslated, unabridged. Unapologetically well-loved, too, judging by all the ballpoint pen she's left scribbled in the margins of his life over the years. And she loves him, she loves him, she loves h—

    "Palamedes," she says, then. Slowly, carefully, enunciating every syllable. This is still new. She'd hate to scare it off before it even has a chance to find its legs. "Are you… curious, at all, about— pronouns?"

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    Megumi is 14 when his secondary gender presents itself. This final stage of puberty was not something he was terribly preoccupied with, so much so that he had not noticed it happened.

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    "If Cam and I didn’t love you as much as we do,” said Palamedes, “we would take turns throttling you, then give all your magazines to charity.”

    A series of occasions in which Nona elicited homicidal feelings in her housemates.

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    As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:

    --His clothing was expensive and stylish;
    --He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
    --His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
    --He looked angry;
    --He was wearing sunglasses.

    What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?

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