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What do you do when someone says 'I'm fine'?
Itās the quietest lie I know. Not dramatic, not even falseājust a shape people fold themselves into when they donāt want to be seen. Iāve been listening to that word for years now, in the library, in the checkout line, on the phone. The way it landsāflat, like a book dropped on a table. I keep wondering: what if we stopped asking 'how are you?' and just said, 'tell me something true'? Not because we need answers, but because the silence after 'Iām fine' is already full of them.
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