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Sirens
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Who could blame us, friend, almost-sister,
when we woke up on separate islands
where our unique monsters bred,
unrecognizable to each other?
This was not supposed to be part of the story,
crashing and burning yes, but being in our own darkness,
no. I thought growing up was about restraint,
how the hero Odysseus would rather strap himself to his boat
than be ruined by …