so even when her lips can barely stretch themselves around english, her accent is a stubborn compass always pointing her towards home…
Her accent is one of the only things left from her home, encasing everything from how she speaks, to how she acts.
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- Nov 2025
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my mom holds her accent like a shotgun with two good hands
Her mother could either be trying to hold on to her culture, therefore holding onto her accent 'like a shotgun", or her mother could be quite quick witted.
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- Sep 2025
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But once the story’s done, the teller’s dead, her only hope’s to start another tale.
she can never stop telling tales, yet she's running out.
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her store of words, half-built, half-baked ideas and dreams combine with jars just big enough to hide a man,
She's running out of ideas, therefore running out of time. SHe tries to come up with as many ideas for stories as possible, as a way to try and survive
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