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My skin leapt apart at the blade’s touch, and the pain darted silver and hot as lightning strike […] I am embarrassed to tell it, so rudimentary it seems, like an infant discovery that her own hand is her own. But that is what I was then, an infant.
The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.