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​Pearls by Claire Rudy Foster

One hundred and forty-five sisters, each as gray and slippery as
the moon-making tongue that spat them into the
Japanese lady's hand. Cloistered by a knot, a lobster clasp,
and doomed to hang (like fishing weights) around a neck that sags
a little more each year.
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