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"My favorite color is black."

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"I love black!　I like white best."

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"We are opposites, aren't we?"

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　I smile and she smiles back.

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　The meaning of this smile is also opposite.

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"Isn't it good that they're opposites?"

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"Yes, I think so."

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　Frankly, it's getting tedious to talk about it.

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　There's no way we can learn anything about each other through this conversation.

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"What do you like to do?"

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　Still asking questions?　And the questions are too abstract.

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　Liz, you're not reading my facial expressions at all.

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　This is why I hate insensitive heroines!

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"Here it is."

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　I snapped my fingers.

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　A flower from a bouquet in a vase at the end of the room came toward me.

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　It's magic to attract things.

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　I caught the flower as it flew toward me and handed it to Liz.

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"Here you go."

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　Everyone was staring at me, not just Liz.

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　I wonder if they are surprised by my manly behavior.

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"Magic ......?"

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"Yes."

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　If you don't accept my flowers soon, I'll be embarrassed.

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"Who's Ali?"

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"Ten years old,......,"

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"Right."

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　I heard Mr. Curtis and his brother Albert talking.

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　Grandpa Will also asked me about my age when I used magic on him.

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　Maybe I'm better than the average child?

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"Thank you."

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　Finally, Liz took the flower from my hand.

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"Margaret, you're so beautiful."

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　Liz smiled at me with a smile that would have made an angel smile.

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　Please don't give me a godly smile like you're about to defeat a villain.

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　It doesn't make me happy to be liked by you.

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　I gave you those flowers as a sarcasm, remember?

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　Being insensitive is a blessing in disguise.

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　After everyone left, I went to the library.

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　Nothing was decided today after all.

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　It was just Liz and me having a conversation.

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　Before I got to the library, I saw my brother Albert and my father standing around talking.

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　They looked so serious. Are you talking about something so difficult?

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　I sneaked up on him so he wouldn't see me.

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"Alicia used magic?　Is that true?"

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"Yes. I saw it with my own eyes.

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"But Alicia is only ten ......"

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　What's wrong with a ten year old?

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　Why are people so surprised to hear my age?

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"This has never happened to me before. I can't believe it."

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"I was surprised, too. I was surprised too, because it is only at the age of thirteen that one can work magic."

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　Since you were thirteen?

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　I'm ten.

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　Oh, something's wrong with the numbers...

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"Heretics."

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　Your father muttered in a low, heavy voice.

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　I'm an heretic?

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　Divergent is supposed to be the heroine.

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　And it's not right that you have to be 13 to do magic. There must be some mistake.

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　I ran to the library, unable to process what I had just heard.

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　I know I shouldn't be so distraught as a bad girl, but I don't have time to think about that right now.

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