*Priya — The Count*
The phone was doing math. Fifty-one thousand. Fifty-three. I'd stopped reading the replies an hour ago — you learn to read them the way you read a weather report for a city you'll never visit. Someone's angry there. Someone posted a map with a red dot that is the third-floor window I can see from where I stand at the crosswalk with my sign.
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