The Bluestocking 2022-23

Anqi Yan (Angie?) | Grade 12 Picture “Hmm..?” “You’re sleeping again. You seem to sleep a lot recently.” “S’ that so? I haven’t been aware.”

The woman’s face was expressionless, while the young doctor, an accomplished thirty year-old male, smiles radiantly.

“You’ve been better these days, right?” “I can recognize you again.” “That’s an improvement.”

A breath of relief, gently exhaled brings a heavy weight into the room.

“Say… how about we play a game?” “A game of?” “Memorization. I’ll show you a picture of something for a few seconds and then take it away. I want you to tell me the details you remember of the picture.” “Easy.” “Don’t be so confident.”

He watches as the woman shuffles through pages scrawled with colorful things.

“Alright, we’re starting.”

She holds up a picture. A face of a…?

The kid is fair in all her glory, with a dimpled smile, skin the color of milk, with a pair of plush looking lips. Some blonde strands scatter on her shoulders. Those blue eyes look directly at him.

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