She saw it as a European present, their love child, something set aside from Texas, apart from the culture she’d left behind.  It could never have big hair, instead opting for a slick androgynous look.  It would grow up speaking multiple languages, able to shift from tongue to tongue, sentence by sentence.  Words would contain multiple definitions depending on each one’s sound and placement within the sentence inside the language it was spoken.

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