Rika often uses those minutes for small experiments. If she intends to be brave about something—calling someone, leaving a job, saying a truth—she stakes it in the morning, speaks the sentence aloud before the day convenes. Saying it before the world is awake gives it a peculiar permission. If the sentence survives the morning, it has a chance of surviving the day.
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