Lowercase v-a-g-i. Capital N. Lowercase a.

 

“Can she read?” The policeman asks.

 

He asks it like I can’t hear, like I’m not right there, sitting on my father’s lap. I want to tell the policeman that there is no time in my memory when I could not read, that there was never a time when I couldn’t put the letters together and throw myself into any world offered to me and disappear, but I stay quiet.

 

“Yes, she can read,” my father answers.

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