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Duran believes she owns the sun, because, well, she says she does. Now she wants to sell it for $1.13 per square meter on eBay.

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The cat bares its fangs again and screeches and I am awake.

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I was born a moth.

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This time, then another time, I think, and then it’ll be over, with that world too.

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Let the sun warm you,the way it did as you sat on the grass, in a haze that marked the end of a summer.

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Later, when I was thirteen and tremendously miserable, another boy told me the yellow bursts of my inner irises reminded him of sunflowers. It was the first time anyone had ever looked me in the eyes long enough to see them. I liked to think that these sunflowers were an unspoken reward for never threatening The Sun by questioning it.