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a junior prom account with line breaks!

Emily Sanders Hopkins
May 19, 2024
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Junior Prom

We went to Syracuse to get her dress
with two of her friends and her best friend’s mom.
She chose flowy sky-blue silk, crisscrossed laces over bare back,
tiny waist, slumped pale shoulders, beautiful long-fingered hands,
a lifetime’s worth of hair under her arms.

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