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was asking a question.
“How do you mean?” Anna asked.
“Because the last time a stranger came up to me,
they tried to kidnap me.” Anna bobbed her head a
little and looked at the others. “For real.” Selina
insisted glaring at Anna. “At the mall. Some weirdo
offered to buy me a doughnut. So, I don’t talk to
strangers now.”
Ben lifted the mood. “Last time I talked to a
stranger I was walking home and there was this old
woman shoveling the snow at the end of her driveway
so I helped her and we got talking.”
Anna and Lilly laughed and called him a hero.
They were warming up.
Selina turned slightly in Eric’s direction but made
no eye contact.
“It’s not fair. It’s all these rules about ‘don’t do
drugs’ and ‘don’t do alcohol’ and ‘don’t do bullying’
and ‘don’t talk to strangers’ but there’s nothing about
treating people with respect.” Selina sighed and rested
both elbows on the table, palms and fingers splayed
outwards. Then almost whispering, “why can’t we
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