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    Sometimes things are fun and cheap and fast. Other times, the fun falls off and it's just cheap, peeling at the edges, a too-fast disintegration of corner store plastic. Ilya did not grow up poor. The government looked after its own, and his father was of the government. The problem was, Ilya did not belong solely to his father. He belonged a little to his mother and a lot to himself, and he had split this ownership along clear lines over and over as a child, wearing thin the drag path of self-determination in limping steps. Crawling toward some kind of light.

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